STOLEN VARNISH
CHARGE OF RECEIVING HOTELKEEPER FINED. [ Per Press A*soclat!_n. 1 INVERCARGILL, June 24. William Nathan Hogg, proprietor of, the Golden Age Hotel at Bluff, was charged in the Bluff Police Court on Saturday with receiving four drums of varnish and two drums of enamel, the property of the Commonwealth and Dominion Shipping Line, from the liner Port Sydney, knowing them to have been dishonestly obtained. He was convicted and fined £3, in default one month’s imprisonment. Accused applied for the right to appeal, but later withdrew the application. It is understood that fresh evidence has been procured for the defence and that an application is to be made for a rehearing. j Two of the crew of tho Port Sydney, Alfred Thomas Warren and Albert Edward Redwood, were charged with stealing tho varnish and enamel. They pleaded guilty and each was fined £3, in default one month* ’s jmprksnnment-
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20181, 25 June 1928, Page 7
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150STOLEN VARNISH Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20181, 25 June 1928, Page 7
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