POWER BOARD CASES.
USE OF ELECTRICITY.
FORMAL CHARGES OF THEFT.
Dominion interest attaches to cases heard at the Matamata fi.M. Court last week, when the Thames Valley Electric Power Board successfully proceeded against two persons for .theft of electricity.
N. S. Griffiths, farmer, of Hinuera, was charged with having used a second, or double, 40-watt lamp from the flex of the one light in the cowshed, and also with having used a 600rwatc heater fitted to and connected with, the motor switch on the cowshed.
Defendant pleaded guilty on both charges, and was fined £5 and 23s costs on the first and was convicted and ordered to pay 23s on the second. William George Scott Brown, also of Hinuera, was charged with having used' an immersion heater fitted to and. connected with one of the lights in his cowshed, and was fined £3 and 23s costs.—Morrinsville “Star.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4825, 1 May 1925, Page 2
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147POWER BOARD CASES. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4825, 1 May 1925, Page 2
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