THEFT OF A BICYCLE
'YOUNG MAN’S OFFENCE Gordon Cecil Waters, aged 22, pleaded guilty in the Whakatane Court yesterday before Messrs. L. H. Brown and I. B. Hubbard, J’s P., to a charge of stealing a bicycle valued at £5 at Martinborough on March 10. Sergeant Farrell stated that Waters had been on holiday at Martinborough in the Wairarapa district, and had taken the bicycle and ridden it to Levin. It had not been recovered. When interviewed by the police at Waimana /he had eventually- admitted the theft. Waters was convicted and sentenced «to 14 days’ imprisonment in the Whakatane Police Gaol, the Bench intimating that as accused had two previous convictions they could not do otherwise than give him a short prison sentence in the hope that it would be to his own benefit and would deter others from converting bicycles to their own use.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 39, 11 June 1947, Page 5
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146THEFT OF A BICYCLE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 39, 11 June 1947, Page 5
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