THEFT OF EATABLES
OFFENCE BY MILITARY CHEF FINE OF £lO IMPOSED (Per United Press Association) TIMARU. Mar. 21. Harold Frederick Howes was convicted and fined £lO for the theft of goods at the Cave military camp. The evidence showed cornflour tea. pineapple, iam and a leg of mutton of a total value of 13s 3d were given by the accused' to a photographer who said he had asked the accused who was a chef, to keep him the wastage when the camp broke up. The photographer alleged that he had seen butter meat and vegetables thrown to the pigs at other camps. The defence was a denial of the theft and an assertion that the case was one of mistaken identity, but the court held that the theft had been clearly established
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24254, 23 March 1940, Page 7
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132THEFT OF EATABLES Otago Daily Times, Issue 24254, 23 March 1940, Page 7
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