DISHONEST POSTAL WORKER.
GIVEN ANOTHER CHANCE. TWO YEARS' PROBATION. Two years' probation was extended to Patrick Francis McAnnalley (Mr. Leary) a Manurewa youth who admitted the theft of a postal packet valued at £5. \ • >>.;':£.Vi*\''.' ■• Hia Honor, Mr.-Just fte-Hierdinan, said he had hesitated Ijetweefl liberating the accused on account-'j^E'h.is l -youth . and sentencing hint, to imprisonment, first as a punishment for hie r dishonesty, and secondly-to niake a-public example of .him,....thei post""office in New" Zealand 'stpo'dKihigh in the confidence of the ■ public-, and it would be a bad day'for, the country if its integrity came.to be suspected by reason of the infidelity of post office servants. His Honor said that, without making a precedent, he would give the accused j another chance. He disliked sending lads to gaol, and he was prepared to believe that the accused had been in-, duced to wander from the path ef honesty through the evil influence of someone else.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 57, 8 March 1923, Page 8
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155DISHONEST POSTAL WORKER. Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 57, 8 March 1923, Page 8
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