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MAN FOUND ON ENCLOSED PREMISES. PROPERTY UNDER MILITARY GUARD. (3y Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. “This man was fortunate in that a member of a military guard who found him and did not act as he was entitled to shoot him,” said. Senior Sergeant Wade, when Clement Arthur Mercer, 23, a labourer, appeared before the fetone Magistrate’s Court charged with having been found without lawful excuse on enclosed premises but under circumstances not disclosing intention to commit any other offence. The premises were considered by the Government of sufficient importance to have a military guard and the accused had rendered himself liable to a penalty of £lO or three months’ imprisonment. The accused pleaded guilty. He offered no excuse except that he was under the influence of liquor at the time. The Justices said that as a warning to others a term imprisonment would have to be imposed. A sentence of fourteen days’ hard labour was imposed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 May 1942, Page 4
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160SENT TO GAOL Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 May 1942, Page 4
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