“Students No Different From Other Offenders”
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WELLINGTON, June 15. “I see no reason why students should be treated in a manner different from other ordinary offenders,” Mr M. B. Scully, S.M., told Clifford Gordon Laking, aged 19, an accounting clerk, today. Laking had pleaded guilty to charges of theft of a road sign belonging to the Health Department and a road sign belonging to the Wellington City Council. The Magistrate fined him £5 on each charge and refused an application by counsel, Mr H. N. Burns, for suppression of name.
Sergeant A. H. Colgrave said that when police called at the Laking’s flat to investigate a report of a noisy party there, they saw in the room two signs— a no-parking sign and an X-ray unit sign. Laking told the police he had taken the signs from the city area. Mr Burns asked the matter be dealt with as a “stupid student prank” and that the name be suppressed. “I say that it was criminal offence in the ordinary sense of the word. I see no reason why students should be treated in a manner different from other offenders,” said the Magistrate.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31087, 16 June 1966, Page 8
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