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FORTNIGHT’S IMPRISONMENT By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, November 7. Donald Stewart Mackenzie (30),' a school teacher, who was recently discharged from the Roto Roa inebriates' Home, where he was a voluntary patient, was sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment for wrongfully signing another person’s name to a telegram without authority. He pleaded guilty. The police said that accused returned from the Island on October 13 having £2O. He went to a hotel and consumed a large quantity of whisky. He disratched a telegram to his father, requesting £5 and attached the signature “P. E. Norman,” who is superintendent of the Inebriate's Island.
Mr Wilson remarked that the offence was a grave one, the maximum penalty being 12 months imprisonment or a fine of £IOO.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20260, 8 November 1935, Page 6
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