RAIDED POST BAG.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 219, 16 September 1939, Page 11

RAIDED POST BAG.

YOUNG BOY'S THEFTS. CHEQUES AND MONEY ORDERS MAGISTRATE'S STRICTURES. (R.v Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this clay. While delivering parcels around n suburb a 14-vear-old message boy removed 71 postal packages from a bag on u postman's cycle outside a shop. Taking them home, he opened them in his bedroom and removed cheques, postal notes, money orders and stamps of a total value of £20 12/4. later using some of the money orders. The day before he stole four books of art union tickets from a shop counter and after selling some of the tickets at 2/6 each destroyed the others.

This morning he pleaded guilty in the Children's Court to the thefts.

"It is obvious that you are a thief and a consistent thief and we would be failing in our duty to the community if we did not place some restraint oil you," said the magistrate. Mr. Reid. S.M., in committing the boy to the care of the State.

Detective-Sergeant Halcrow said the youth had spent 13/7. He had destroyed three cheques, and all the letters and other notes had been hidden in the wood shed. He bad been before the Court in 1930.