THEFT OF RACQUET
FARM HAND'S LAPSE Appearing on remand. Robert Harvey Bidois, an 18-year-old farmhand, of Ohauiti, pleaded guilty of the theft of a tennis racquet, valued at 30s, when he appeared before Mr S. L. Paterson, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court, Hamilton, this morning. Senior-Sergeant G. H. Lambert said Bidois was accustomed to visit a boardinghouse in Tauranga. One day he entered the room of a boarde.and stole a tennis racquet. The racquet had been recovered, but the name on it had been removed. Bidois had been under the care of the Child Welfare Department since he was three years of age and his conduct had been very unsetisfactorv “You will have to get out of the habit of picking up things that don't belong to you,” said the magistrate to Bidois, whom he placed on probation for two year*.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20986, 13 December 1939, Page 10
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141THEFT OF RACQUET Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20986, 13 December 1939, Page 10
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