NO SYMPATHY.
THEFT FROM UNEMPLOYED t FUNDS CHRISTCHURCH, August 13. Arthur Leonard Fisher, lately a leader of the unemployed, pleaded .guilty this morning to the theft of £l6 15s, the property of the Christchurch: organisation of the unemployed. He was fined £lO and ordered the amount stolen, in default six weeks’ imprisonment. • The police said that the money had been obtained for tickets sold by the accused for a concert held on. behalf of the unemployed dm: July. The Magistrate, Mr. Mosley, said: “With the genuine unemployed- one must sympathise sincerely, but with men of this type I cannot have any sympathy at all. Owing to the loss of subsidies on the amount -stolen Fisher has deprived unemployed of practically £SO.”—(PA..)
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Wairarapa Age, 14 August 1928, Page 5
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