THEFT OF CATTLE
MAN GRANTED PROBATION ■PLEA BY VICTIMS (Per Press Association.) NEW PLYMONTH, last, ni^ht. “It is very unusual to (jive probation for sheep or cattle stealing, because they are insidious offences that arc hard to sheet home/’ said Mr, Justice Ostler in the .Supreme Court, ivlien admitting Herbert Isaac Elliot, farm manager, of Mahoonui, to probation for two years for the theft of cattle from a neighbour. “For that reason, T do not think I have previously given probation for this offence,” added His Honour,” but; your neighbours, the men whose cattle you stoic, have come forward to speak for you.” The condition was that Elliot should take out a prohibition order for two years and pay the costs of the prosecution.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19333, 25 May 1937, Page 12
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124THEFT OF CATTLE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19333, 25 May 1937, Page 12
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