GAOL FOR THEFT.
POSTAL MESSENGER’S' OF-FENCE. AUCKLAND, Jan. 23. A postal messenger, Colin Hooton, aged -M, pleaded guilty iu the Magistrate’s Court to stealing postal packets containing four pairs of silk stockings and a woman’s satin sleeping suit, valued at £3 10s; also other packets containing 3-1 pairs of silk stockings, five handbags, and other articles, valued at £lB 18s. The police said for the year before Hooton’s arrest tho department had received •numerous complaints of tho non-delivery of packages. Hooton was a married man with five children, defending counsel .said. He had a long and honourable record as a postal officer and as a soldier in the last war, and be was unable to explain why lie bad submitted to the temptation.
The Magistrate (Mr J. H. Luxford) sentenced Hooton to three months’ imprisonment on one charge. On the second he was convicted and discharged.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 88, 24 January 1942, Page 7
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