POSTAL SORTER’S THEFTS
Appeal Against Gaol Sentence Fails
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, Oct. 1.
A former Palmerston North postal sorter. Thomas Rennie, aged 47, had his appeal, against a sentence of 12 months’ gaol on 21 charges of theft as a servant, dismissed by Mr Justice K. M. Gresson in the Supreme Court today.
After considering Rennie’s history and listening to submissions by his counsel (Mr D. S. Castle), his Honour said: “I do not think this appeal has any merits. For five months Rennie systematically stole, and exposed his fellow workers to suspicion.” /- His Honour added that he did not think the sentence imposed by Mr D. G. Sinclair, S.M., tn the Magistrate’s Court, Palmerston North, was “in the least too severe.”
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28397, 2 October 1957, Page 9
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