MAGISTRATE'S STRONG COMMENT
(Per Press Association.) "■ * ' " ' REEFTON, this day
A licensing case was before the Stipendiary Magistrate yesterday in .connection with the serving of liquor to boys under 21 years. His Worship fined a barmaid and tlie son of a licensee £5, reserving judgment on the licensee's case: -Mr N Hewitt, 'S.M'., strongly censured two boys, Horton and Lecher, whose statements to the police directly contradicted their evidence, and who aamitted the statements were a fabrication. The magistrate ordered the sergeant of police to endeavor to institute proceedings for perjury against the lads, and characterised the change . of statements to the police and the evidence given in the Court in these cases as disgusting, and the lads as liars.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12927, 22 November 1912, Page 5
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119MAGISTRATE'S STRONG COMMENT Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12927, 22 November 1912, Page 5
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