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(Australian Press Association.) MALING CONVICTED. GAOL AND £SOO FINE. SYDNEY. July 31. Silas Mating was fined £SOO and was .sentenced to six months' ..impnisonment, for corruptly receiving £10,009 from Babcock, Wilcox. Ltd. Tho Magistrate declared that staling was false to his trust. Mating was bailed out for £3OO, pending an appeal. The Magistrate, in delivering 'his sentence, said Maling had proved false to his trust and had prostituted his important office by levying blackmail on persons endeavouring to do business with his principals. Immediately the sentence was delivered, Maling’s counsel lodged ail appeal to the Quarter Sessions Appeal Court, without prejudice to Maling’s right to appeal to the Full Court for a. writ of prohibition to restrain the Magistrate from further acting upon the conviction. MEMORIAL SERVICE. SYDNEY, Aug. 1. Synchronising with the funeral at Christchurch, a memorial service for the late Stanley Wilkinson will he held at Saint Stephen’s Church, Sydney, to-day. Wilkinson came from New Zealand in 1917 as travelling secretary for Presbyterians for New South Wales, his work resulting in a large increase in membership. He was greatly valued here.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 August 1928, Page 3
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