AUCKLAND SUPREME COURT
ALTERING A TELEGRAM. By Telegraph-Press .• jsociatlon, Auckland, October 18. At tho Supreme Court to-day, Boyd Stewart, telegraphist, was charged with false pretences by having altered the name of a horse iu a betting telegram in the courso of transmission. 011 a favourable report by tho probation oflicer, Mr. Justice Stringer admitted the accused to probation for two yeans, on condition that his amusements and employment shall be subject to the probation officer's approval, and also that he doeß not gamble or enter a racecourse, and that he pay ~£l3 casts.
" Sam Karaka, who robbed a mail bag while employed as a postal carrier at Whnkatane, was ordered to undergo reformative treatment for five years, eoncurrent with a sentence of two years' reformative treatment previously' imposed tor theft.
Charles Tuatara, a Maori, was admitted to probation for two years and was ordered to pay &10, the value of certain articles, on a charge of having stolon a, soldier's kit. Couusol explained that prisoner lost Ids own kit and had taken one belonging to another teturned man.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 21, 20 October 1919, Page 4
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178AUCKLAND SUPREME COURT Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 21, 20 October 1919, Page 4
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