YOUNG LOVERS
FALL FOUL OF POLICE,
[By Telegraph, Per Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, September 16. Two young lovers who ran away together from. Christchurch, attended at the Police Court to-day. Mavis Good aged 19, a shop assistant, pleaded guilty to incurring a debt of £6 7s with a city firm by fraud. Eric Neville Hill, 18, a’caterer, was charged with being idle and disorderly. Chief Detective Hammondysaid the couple worked for a while, in "Wellington and then came to Auckland where Good got employment as a theatre usher. She went to a grocer’s and said she was Mrs Hill, her husband was going to take over a city restaurant and they had a fashionble flat. She went also to other firms and altogether owed £7O. The parents of the couple would not allow them to marry.
Magistrate Hunt placed the girl on probation for three years, ordered restitution, and gave her in charge of the Salvation Army pending her return to Christchurch.In the case of Hill, counsel said his parents were wealthy Christchurch people, His father wanted him to go home, The Magistrate granted two years’ probation and ordered £6 17s restitution.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1930, Page 5
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