COURT CASES

Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1932, Page 6

COURT CASES

RiUSE BY THIEF. WELLINGTON, October 17. “He has 19 convictions for theft and is without doubt one of the worst thieves we’ve had here for some time,” said Detective-Sergeant Re veil in the Police Court when referring to William Henry Gough, painter, aged 31, who had pleaded guilty to three charges of stealing articles to a total value of £36 11s 3d, and a charge of failing to comply with the terms of his release on probation. Accused, on the first) charge of theft, was sentenced to a period of reformative detention not exceeding three years, to be served at the expiration of a twelve months’ sentence already being served. On the other charges he was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within three years if called upon. >

Detective-Sergeant Revell said that accused would call at a boardinghouse and), reprcsuting himself to be a postal officer on transfer, would ask for board and lodgings. Having gained entrance to- the house he would then steal from the rooms of other boarders. He did this at three houses.

colouring in peas, A fine of £4 arid costs was imposed on the National Dairy Association of New Zealand Ltd., for selling canned peas containing green coal tar dye, contrary to the regulations under the Sale of Food, and Drugs Act.

Mr W. H. Cunningham, who appeared for the association, contended that so far as was known the introduction of the colouring matter was not contrary to the regulations in/ England, where the peas were canned. CHARsGE OF STEALING.. Thomas Reginald Howell, aged 37, was charged with stealing £152 17s, the property of Napier-Wellington Daily Transport Company. A young woman who name was ordered to be. suppressed, was jointly charged. Both were remanded until next Wednesday. Mr A. J. Mazengarb, counsel for Howell, said that accused was a shareholder in the company. The matter, he said, seemed to he a civil rather than a criminal one. Bail was allowed. CHINESE SENT TO GAOL. A young Chinese, Wong Gam Hee, who resided with his father at a fruit shop in Te Aroha, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment for wilful damage to crockery, the property of is father. Constable Monson sc.id that accused had been arrested at the complaint of his father, who had had a good deal of trouble with him in the past. Accused, who had been before the court on several occasions on similar charges, was in the habit of leaving home for months at a time, and returning when he was without money.