WENT TO TROTS TO GET MANURE
Racecourse Trespasser’s Excuse The excuse advanced by Samuel McShane when Detective-Sergeant F. N. Robinson found him trespassing on Hutt Park during the recent trotting meeting was. that he was there to get manure. De-tective-Sergeant Robinson, prosecuting McShane in the Magistrates’ Court, Petone, yesterday, said that he was a plausible old man. Though about 70 he was regarded as an active thief and as unsuitable to be at a race meeting. He had had 19 convictions for theft in 30 years and one for racecourse trespass. Detective-Sergeant Robinson said that when he saw McShane he was watching the totalizator and bad nothing with him either to collect or take away manure. Asked by Mr. A. M. Goulding, S.M., what he had intended to remove the manure in, McShane said he was first going to arrange with the caretaker to get it. The .magistrate: Ton will have to arrange in the future to get manure at a time other than when a race meeting is in progress. You are fined £2 for trespassing on the racecourse. Detective Robinson communicated this to McShane, who said he was hard of hearing. The magistrate: He can hear that. McShane: Yes, that’s right enough; I can hear that.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 146, 16 March 1939, Page 6
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208WENT TO TROTS TO GET MANURE Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 146, 16 March 1939, Page 6
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