TRAMWAY TICKETS
ALLEGED THEFT. CONDUCTOR IMPRISONED. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, July 30. A tram conductor named James Shaw Bevan Rice, was sentenced today by Mr E. Page, S.M., to a month and a day in prison on a charge of stealing a block of tramway universal concession tickets valued at £3 10/from the box of a fellow employee at the Kilbirnie Tram Depot. The case against another conductor, jointly charged, was dismissed. In imposing sentence, the Magistrate remarked that the sentence of a month entitled prisoner to appeal only on the question of law. If, however, the sentence was increased a general appeal could be made. Counsel for Rice said he would prefer an extension of one day. Security for appeal was fixed at £25. The Magistrate remarked, before convicting the accused, on the serious aspect of such cases in that they threw suspicion on other employees and, as in this case, on a man whom he thought was quite innocent of the charge.
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Southland Times, Issue 21774, 1 August 1932, Page 5
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165TRAMWAY TICKETS Southland Times, Issue 21774, 1 August 1932, Page 5
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