MAIL OPENED ILLEGALLY
Man And Youth Admit Charges (N.Z. Press Association) GISBORNE, July 23. Charges of delaying and opening of mail were admitted by a man and a youth who appeared before Mr L. N. Ritchie, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, today.
Toni Henderson Coote aged 17, pleaded guilty to a charge at Gisborne that being an officer of the Post Office, he did. contrary to his duty, wilfully delay postal articles and Reginald David Light, aged 35. a mechanic, pleaded guilty to unlawfully opening mall. Both were remanded till July 30 for sentence. Detective Sergeant B. H Constable said it wa>s alleged that Coote would hand Light any letters with a Titahi Bay postmark addressed to a Wainui road resident. Coote handed Light approximately 10 letters. Light had admitted opening the letters, reading them, and then re-sealing them. The letters had been given back to Coote for delivery a day later.
The main reason for Light opening the letters appeared to be that he wanted to know where his de facto wife, the daughter of the complainant, was.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30191, 24 July 1963, Page 17
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