Fry v Mathieson - [1956] NZLR 307

Police Force — Money in Possession of Police — Moneys taken from Person on Arrest — Such Person convicted of obtaining from Several Persons Money by False Pretences — No Statutory Provision to revest Money in Persons defrauded — Commonlaw Right of Recovery — Magistrate, in His Discretion, ordering Money to be distributed pro rata according to Amount whereof Persons respectively defrauded — Order within His Jurisdiction — Police Force Act 1947, ss 41, 71.