COSTLY “JOKE”
FINE OF FIVE POUNDS WELLINGTON, June 17. As Le<> Chung, a Chinese, was conveying a consignment of rice from the Queen’s Wharf; Wellington, to his shop recently, a number of bags fell off his asistant and collect them with a hand, motor-lorry. He had to go back with his cart. One bag was found to be missing, and a report to the police resulted in Alfred Smith, a carrier, appearing before Mr E. Page, S.M., to answer a charge of theft of a bag of rice, valued at IDs Gd. Counsel for accused said Smith had taken the bag of rice more as a joke against the Chinaman than anything else. He had expected the owner to return and claim his property, hut when he did not do Sp had made an entry in the carriers’ telephone box at the wharf stating that he had the bag of rice.
Afier hearing the. evidence, the magistrate said the accused, if he had been -<in honest man, would have informed the police or Harbour Board officers thatjie had the bag of rice, but instead of ..doing so had taken the bag to his home at Miramar. He would be convicted and fined £o, with witnesses expenses 365.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1933, Page 3
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