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PROBATION INEFFECTIVE DETECTIVE’S COMPLAINT "The police are put to a great deal of trouble looking for these men,” complained Chief - Detective Hammond when Robert Ferguson was charged at the Police Court yesterday with breaking the terms of his release on probation. Mr. Hammond said that many offenders who received the benefit of lenient treatment made no attempt to comply with the terms of their release. Ferguson, a labourer aged 51. was represented by Mr. R. A. Sinclair, who entered a plea of guilty on his behalf. The acting-probation officer understood that Ferguson was heavily in debt. He had failed to make the restitution of 10s a week ordered by the Court.
Mr. Sinclair explained that the payments had stopped because his client was out of work. He was a sick man. but he had work to go to, and his sons would assist him.
Ferguson was remanded until Thursday for sentence.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 586, 12 February 1929, Page 13
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153MISPLACED LENIENCY Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 586, 12 February 1929, Page 13
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