DECISION RESERVED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20182, 26 June 1928, Page 8

DECISION RESERVED

CHARGE OF RECEIVING STOLEN PAINT AND VARNISH. [ Per Preaß Association. f INVERCARGILL, June 25. The rehearing of the case against William Nathan Hogg, licensee of the Golden Age Hotel at Bluff, was granted in the Bluff Police Court to-day, and as a result the justices reversed their previous decision, and the conviction and fine of £3 were revoked. The charge against Hogg was one of receiving four drums of varnish and two drums of enamel, the property of the Commonwealth and Dominion Shipping Line, knowing them to have been dishonestly obtained. At the first hearing accused was not represented by counsel, but today Mr Eustace Russell appeared for him. In the claim for a rehearing was a cause stating that Hogg had been arrested straight away following the finding of the stolen property in his yard and that he had appeared before the Court almost immediately. Counsel submitted that what happened was that when the firemen offered the goods to Hogg they were rebuffed. Obviously, he said, they could not walk the streets with paint and they left it where it was found, in Hogg’s yard. Two firemen on th'q Port Sydney gave evidence that they overheard two men talking on the ship, one stating that he had “the stuff planted in a yard. ”