MAGISTRATE'S COURT
.A fine of £3 and costs on each charge was imposed on Lawrence Petersen, labourer, 39, by Mr W F Stilwell, S.M., in the Magnate's Court yesterday for failing to* comply with a direction of the man-power officer to work with the W.C.C. Tramway Department as a labourer and for failing to report to the-man-power officer as ordered. He pleaded guilty to both charges. For leaving the employment of-T.-J. Davenport and Sons, Ltd., \vithout the prior permission of the man-power officer and for failing to report back there for work When directed, James Herbert Fraser, labourer, 19, was fined £1 and costs on each charge. He pleaded guilty. j Nola Phoebe Jimmieson, waitress, 20, who had previously pleaded guilty to a charge of escaping from the Arohata Borstal Institution, had six months added on to her previous sentence by Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M.
Seen removing a pair of ladies* stockings from a counter in Selfridges (N.Z.), Ltd., yesterday afternoon, James Audley Register, labourer, 64, was arrested and .found to be also in possession of three pairs of men's hose. Today he pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court to a charge of theft, and. was sentenced to three ■ months' imprisonmeatfe£ $4r, J. !L stout. S.M.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 55, 2 September 1944, Page 5
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