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SCHOOL TEACHER CHARGED. TELEGRAM TO HIS FATHER. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Nov. 7. Donald Stewart Mackenzie, aged 30, a school teacher, who was recently discharged from Roto Roa, the inebriates’ home island where he was a voluntary patient, was sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment for wrongfully signing another’s name to a telegram without authority. He pleaded guilty. The police said that McKenzie returned from the island on October 18, having £2O. He went to a hotel, consumed a large quantity of whisky, and dispatched a telegram to his father requesting £5, and attached the signature P. E. Norman, who is superintendent of the inebriates’ island.
Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., remarked that the offence was a grave one, the maximum penalty being 12 months’ imprisonment or a fine of £lOO.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 November 1935, Page 4
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