MAN SENT TO GAOL
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DUNEDIN, Feb. 10. "These thefts are eoimnon, the rewards are high, the oft'ences are diffieult to fleteet, and I doubt if che jiolice reeeivo tlie support they sliould in istopping them, " said Mr. Justice Kennedy in sentencing Raymond Noel Morgan, a donkeyman 011 the freighter Waijialii, who was implicated in the theft of clothing material valued at £0(52 froin the ship, to 12 months' reformative detention. His Ronour granted an application for appeai by counsel for Philip James Rumble, a waterside worker, who apjieared for sentence on a similar charge. The grounds for appeai were that the evidence amounted to suspieion only and that the verdict was unreasonable.
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Chronicle (Levin), 11 February 1947, Page 8
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116MAN SENT TO GAOL Chronicle (Levin), 11 February 1947, Page 8
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