LENT MONEY TO FRIEND.
POSTAL OFFICER'S THEFT
PRISON SENTENCE PASSED.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, this day.
Oliver William Joseph Wright was sentenced to-day to three months imprisonment for committing theft as a servant. He was a clerk in the money order office at Wangamn, and he ietained £80 and lent it to a fnend. According to counsel he was making e\ei> endeavour to refund the money prior to his arrest, and he had just raised £100 in Wellington on a life insurance policj when he was arrested. ' Mr. Justice MacGregor said Wright must have known very well what he was doin" when he took the money. ne was "a postal officer and in a position of trust.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 138, 13 June 1929, Page 7
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