THEFT OF CANARY SEED
WATERSIDER GETS SEVEN DAYS.
(By Telegraph. Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Friday.
This morning, while down .at 'the Central wharf near the R.M.S. Makura, Senior Detective Ward and Detective McHugh observed a man damaging a sack containing canary seed. He took a quantity of the seed and was afterwards arrested. At 2.30 this afternoon William Charles Skinner (29) appeared before Mr J. W. Poynton, S.M., at the Police Court, charged with stealing 1.2 s 6d worth of canary seed, the property of the Union. Company. Chief Detective Cummings said that accused was a married man against whom nothing else was known. Mr Poynton: Any excuse, Skinner?
Accused: No excuse. Mr Poynton: Seven days' imprisonment. ."•
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1574, 15 November 1924, Page 5
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