OLD IRON ON FARM
THEFT CHARGE DISMISSED That there would not have been a prosecution had not a certain amount of ill-feeling existed between defendant and informant was the opinion of Mr. F. H. Levien. S.M.. in the PapsI kura Police Court this morning, when a farmer. Torrance Walter Wright, vh charged with the theft of a quanti:of scrap iron valued at £2 10s, from Duncan Mclnnis. j Counsel for defendant. Mr. S. IX Rice, said his client leased the lam j from informant and in the course of j farming operations had picked up j about half a ton of scrap iron and deposited it at a blacksmith's shop in Otahuhu. Subsequently efforts wer% made to sell the iron and it was left in I a dealer’s shop in Auckland. The iron i constituted part of an iron hauler which had not been used for 15 years, Sidney Edward Atkins, blacksmith, | , Otahuhu. valued the iron at 2s 6d. The magistrate considered there traj j no evidence that defendant had sought | to benefit by the sale of the iron and 1 dismissed the case as trivial.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 971, 14 May 1930, Page 10
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186OLD IRON ON FARM Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 971, 14 May 1930, Page 10
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