PROBATION ORDER BROKEN
SIX WEEK’S IMPRISONMENT ' IMPOSED. CASE IN MASTERTON. A sitting of the Masterton Magistrate’s Court was held this morning, Messrs. L. J. Taylor, and R. Krahagen, J.’sP, being on the Bench, when William Houston, labourer, of no fixed abode, was sentenced to six weeks’ hard labour in the Wellington prison on a charge of failing to comply with the terms of a probation order. On a charge of drunkenness Houston was convicted and discharged. Senior-Sergeant G. A. Doggett stated that Houston had been released from prison on January 29, 1937, and had been ordered to report on probation until May. 1937. He had reported once in 1937, and since then he had failed to report.
Houston was arrested by Constable R. Berry on Saturday.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 November 1940, Page 7
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126PROBATION ORDER BROKEN Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 November 1940, Page 7
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