THEFT FROM COLLECTION BOX
.♦ • - WOMAN FINED £2O
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, August 18. When Mrs Laura Frances Martin, who last Friday was charged with stealing,.l4s from the Fighting Forces Fund, J appeared in the Magistrate’s Court .this afternoon,- she changed her plea from not guilty to guilty; Hunt, in inflicting the maximum’flne-of £2O, said that in> view, of the accused’s age he would not send her to.prison. ‘.To steal money from a collection; box-is not only depriving the soldiers for whom the money is'being.collectedj but also it destroys, the, confidence of the public in regard •to giving'to other collections,”. said the. Magistrate.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23411, 19 August 1941, Page 10
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