PRISON FOR THEFT OF MAILS
Postal Employee Stole £234 * (New Zealand Press Association) Auckland, Tuiy 3. A 21-year-old postal employee, Graham Basil Havill, who appeared for sentence today for the theft of 539 letters containing £234 from the mails, was gaoled for three months, '.his sentence to be followed by corrective training (maximum three years). The Court heard last week how as an acting-clerk in the mailroom of the Central Post Office. Havill systematically stole an unknown number of letters. He burned some, but 539 were recovered, including 28 he bad on him when: arrested. '» »
Today. Mr F McCarthy, S.M., said this was a serious theft. The probation officer’s report showed that Havill lived in a world of fantasy, and he had been an unsatisfactory probationer on a previous offence.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28938, 4 July 1959, Page 7
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