Committed For Sentence For Theft At Whakatane
Pleading guilty to a charge of breaking, entering and theft at Ramson and Rae’s grocery, Whakatane of April 23, Jack Ormond Harland, married, aged 21 years, mine shift worker, Huntly, no fixed abode, was committed to the Auckland Supreme Court for sentence by Messrs C. S. Armstrong and C. H. Brebner, J’s.P., in the Whakatane Police Court on Monday. Evidence was given by Mr Robert Rae, one of the proprietors of the grocery, and Constable R. F. Julian, who prosecuted. Accused also pleaded guilty to converting two bicycles at Whakatane on April 21 and 23. On the first he was convicted and discharged through lack of evidence and on the second was convicted and sentenced to one month’s imprisonment. He was also charged with breaking, entering and theft at Hamilton but was remanded to the Hamilton Supreme Court on May 16.
In evidence Constable Julian revealed that Harland was wanted for other offences at Palmerston North, Auckland, and Hastings.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 85, 11 May 1949, Page 5
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