MESSAGE BOY'S THEFT

Evening Post, Issue 47, 23 August 1935, Page 11

MESSAGE BOY'S THEFT

Two years' detention in t:ie Borstal institution at Invercargill was the penalty imposed on a youth of 17, employed as a messenger, who appeared before Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today, for the theft of £39 Bs' 6d from his employers. Detective-Sergeant L. Revell said that on August 7 the accused collected a registered letter and signed -for it. He kept the money it contained, spending £9, and giving £1 to another boy. When he was taxed with the thetts he gave three different explanations of where the balance of the money had gone—that it had been stolen from a coat1- in which he had Put it, that he had buried it in a yard, and that he had burned it. The money had not been recovered, and it was not known whether the boy had concealed it for future use or given it away. Tlie

Diplomas of the Institute of Fire Engineers of Great. Britain have been obtained by the following officers of the Wellington Fire Board:—Senior Station Officer J. Philp (Central station), associate member; Acting Foreman A. Cartwright (Constable Street Station), graduate member. Mr. Philp headed the list of overseas candidates. The congratulations of the board were ov~-« curt al Hs mee ting today.