DAMAGE TO GLOBES OUTSIDE SHOPS.
youths before court. Levin, June It On two charges of wilfully breaking electric light globes to the value of 31s. (id. at the front of shops in Oxford Street, John Gill, Clarence Walls, and James Webb appeared before Mr. J. 11. Salmon, S.M., in Hie Magistrate’s Court, and each pleaded guilty. Constable Bagvie, on behalf of Hu* police, stated that during Easter, the globes disappeared, and were found later in a pit near the railway station. Altogether, 45 !amps were missing from 33 different shops, but the police had had i.nlv two informations, hoping that lhe.se would cover all the olicnees. He asked that the Court adjourn the ease for a month to enable the defendants to make good the damage. The Magistrate pointed out that any such order could relate only to the two charges. * Constable Bagrie replied that the defendants should be compelled to make good Hu* whole of the damage, amounting to £l2 lbs 3d. lhe police could prefer Hu* full 38 char-
’flu* ease was adjourned ’until July 14.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3651, 14 June 1927, Page 4
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178DAMAGE TO GLOBES OUTSIDE SHOPS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3651, 14 June 1927, Page 4
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