THE FIREWOOD CASES.
To the Editor. Sir,—In regard to the charges brought against a number of South Invercargill residents on Wednesday of taking firewood from a Corporation endowment my case was mentioned separately, because I was charged with taking fencing posts as well as firewood. It was brought out in Court that these few fencing posts were obtained from the road line and not from the endowment at all, and, as your report shows, the Magistrate treated me exactly the same as the others. Though the Bench dismissed the cases as trivial, and in that way exonerated us, I think it was pretty rough to prosecute four or five of us for doing exactly the same thing as many others had been doing also, and we all did it quite openly and without the slightest idea that we were doing anything improper. I am, etc., ALBERT CROSS. July 10.
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Southland Times, Issue 19293, 11 July 1924, Page 9
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