MADE A BAD START
MAN ALLOWED TO LEAVES NEW ZEALAND. ff “NO GOOD ,TO DOMINION.” 1 :■ ‘ • Press Association —Oopyrighl AUCKLAND, Tliis Day. '“Tills mpn has made a bad start here, and .men of h'ls type are no good to the Dominion, so 1' would suggest) t(hat‘ your "Worship allow him to sail for England;’’. ’ It was Detective Sergeant Kelly who made th(is' suggestion at tlie ' Police Court' Avlieii Donald George . Fitzgerald' Rowland' (23) pleaded guilty to a 4 charge of stealing a shirt, a Maori doss, a suit, arid a silk scarf, of a total vahle of £6, the propW4j of William Williams. Mr Kelly also stated That accused ■ < arrived) in. New Zealand pin board the Government steamer Maui Pomare from England’ in Ju'he lastHe went to board' with Williams at Wellington, and stole the articles mentioned, afterwards selling them. Ho had since made restitution.' The Magistrate agreed that it would be better for Rowland to leave the Dominion, arid convicted arid ordered him to conic up for scritencc to-mor-xow morning. W he sails to-day no more will be hoard of the matter.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 19, 17 August 1928, Page 6
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