CEMETERY THEFTS.
FARM HAND STOLE FLOWERS. REFUSED TO GIVE NAME. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) NEW PLYMOUTH, this day. "This sort of thing is very serious," said the New Plymouth borough inspector in the Police Court to-day, when Lloyd Wale, a young Omata farmhand, was charged with picking ilowers from graves in the local cemetery. The inspector stated that the theft of Ilowers was not confined to the cemetery, but was going on in all the parks and public places. People seemed to think they had a right to pick f'f flowers at will. It was a "rotten tiling when some people went to considerable trouble to grow attractive flowers on relatives' graves and someone else stole them. , , , , I In this case Wale drove lus employer s mother to the cemetery, and while she was attending to her husbands grave, Wale wandered about the grounds. He aroused the suspicions of the sexton, who saw him picking flowers off gra-ves and placing them on various other graves. Wale was accosted by the sexton, but refused to give him his name, and cleared out. An attempt was made to stop him as he left the cemetery, but he drove straight on. From the' car number it was possible to trace him to Okato. Wale wai fined £1 10/, with costs, 12/.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 300, 20 December 1938, Page 6
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