YOUTHS’ ESCAPADE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 3, 25 October 1924, Page 3

YOUTHS’ ESCAPADE

GO PIGHUNTING. -» U . . ■' *— I At tlm New Plymouth Magistrate's Court on- Thursday (reports the Herald) four youths —’Edgar Henry Meuli, Williiun Thompson Hey, Kingsley M. Meuli, and Ronald T. Ti<as»: —were charged until appropriating to their own \ise at Okau a horse valued at £65 the property of Frederick Calvert. The police stated the youths were employed at Tariki and had gone to Okau where,.they liad approached Calvert for . tl>e hire of a horse.. Calr vert had told them that ho did not have one available, but later found that they had taken a draught horse from his pul doth and rode it in turns 'to Waitanga, their, destination. They subsequently returned and left the horse on the road.

All pleaded guilty to save the expense of bringing witnesses from but Edgar Henry Meuli said they had not taken the horse from the paddock but found it grazing on the road. They did not know that it was Calvert's, and they had taken the draught liecauso it was the only one he could catch. They worked at ,Tariki and had gone into Okau on a week-end pig-shooting expedition.

“I shall look upon, the matter in the light of a youthful escapade,” said the Magistrate, who reminded the defendants of the seriousness of the offence which, viewed l in another light, might have resulted in imprisonment without the option of a fine.

There were no expenses in connection with the charge and the four were convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six months.

A notice in the advertisement columns states that the County Hotel sdables will be closed as a livery stable as from Ist November. This course lias been found necessary to provide room for new sample rooms now in course of election, and it is the intention of (Messrs Kirkwood Bros, Ltd. to occupy the whole of the present stable site for more sample rooms should the demand arise. The site is particularly adapted for sample rooms, having an' entrance from Braodway Central. With the completion, of the sample rooms in (■our;se of construction,, ten. rooms will be available, all being up-to-date in every respect.