The Auckland Courts.
PEJSBIONiER GAOLED FOtR FRAUD
SUPPLYING NATIVES WITH!
RIFLESL
A DIVORCIE jCIAJSE.
(Per United Press Association.)
AiUCKLAiM), December: 14.
George Spumvaiy, an old age pensionea^ was wrnim&tted to prison for j ,tw!o months for what the Stipendiary Magistrate 'described m tTie worst case of fraud jn •oonneotiion with 'the pensions that he 'had seen- Aocußed's ipensiom VasT •oa.nioelled and! hie waist ordered to refundl double the amount paidl- He had declared himself possessed' of no property, bfut shortly before apipiying for the pension he withdrewl £281 from the iSJaivingis Bainifc, subsequently redeipositing' the I m/cmeyi .and again, withdrawing it prior to the renewal of the application..
;At the 9up(rfeme Coujkib William Adams, who pleaded guilty to sutplying the natives, ■sit Kaikohe watfi rifles! and ammiunition, wte refused probation aaid fined' £50 oir 6 months, the sentence being 'regarded' by Judge Edwards as lenient-
In the divorce case Isabella Major versus George Everett -Major, a decree nisi was granted on the grounds of desertion and' adultery with costs.
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Thames Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 10498, 14 December 1903, Page 2
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169The Auckland Courts. Thames Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 10498, 14 December 1903, Page 2
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