THEFTS FROM FIRM.
NINETEEN EMPLOYEES GUILTY.
(For Press Association). AUCKLAND, July 26. A warning that if similar oases continued to comie before him of thefts by employees, the penalty would be imprisonment, was given by the Magistrate (Mr J. Morling, S.M.), when 19 men, and one girl, employees of Reid (New Zealand) Rubber Mills, Ltd., pleaded guilty to the theft of goods from the firm. The smallest individual amount involved was 3s, and the largest £9 ss. The goods stolen included cycle tyres, hot water bottles', rubber mats, tennis balls, and rubber balls. The police said' for the last three months constables had been specially detailed to catch offenders. The; Magistrate fined all hut two of the defendants —a girl and a youth, each aged 17 years—£lo each.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 248, 27 July 1940, Page 3
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