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CONDUCT OF PROBATIONER. AUCKLAND, April 1. ‘■His conduct has been reprehensible. He lias boon taking people down by valueless cheques. He took don a one woman, lor £IOO and a gii'l in an olfiee lor l‘2s lid.” This description wus given by tlni Probation Officei when George Wallace Gleddon Richard son, a clerk, aged twenty-one years, .appeared for sentence on a charge of obtaining CIO from the. New Zealand Coffee and Spice Company by means of a valueless cheque for C2O. A ecus, ed had been Inn ore the Court for a breach of his probation and bad been sentenced to fourteen days. lie had been placed on probation at Christchurch and ordered to make restitu tion of C(>6. Later Richardson was transferred to Auckland and had given a lot of trouble. On arrival lie had been warned, hut had failed to report.
The Magistrate: He’s not going to get a short term. Tile .Magistrate in Christchurch very reluctantly gave him a chance before. He will be sent to the Waikeria Borstal Institute for two years.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 April 1931, Page 8
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