STOLEN CLOTHES
MAN ON LEAVE FROM ARMY
Attired in grey sports trousers, a blue shirt and a white pullover, Aubrey Henry Curry, a sawmill hand, 20, appeared before Mr. F. H. Levien, S.M., in the Police Court today on a charge of theft of a suitcase containing clothing of a total value of £7 14/6. Mr. V. N. Hubble appeared for Curry who admitted the charge. Detective-Sergeant Trethewey said Curry was arrested at a sawmill near Putararu, when wearing some of the stolen clothing. Mr. Hubble described the theft as an-isolated one, committed in unusual circumstances. When Curry obtained a job at a sawmill in the country, he was tempted and foolishly took clothing belonging to another man who stayed at the same apartment house in Victoria Street. Until they are discharged from the army men like Curry on indefinite leave without pay were not issued with. ration books. His employers wanted him* back as he was a good man.- "M.% '->» „ Remarking that such thefts were rife' at present, the magistrate imposed a fine or £4.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 41, 18 February 1943, Page 6
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