‘70% Of Employees Stole From Shop’
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, May 24. An Auckland lawyer said in the Magistrate’s Court today that the manager of a large city store had told him that nearly 70 per cent of his employees stole goods from the firm.
The lawyer, Mr M. I. Ramsay, was appearing for two women, former employees of the firm, who appeared for sentence before Mr E. F. Rothwell, S.M., on charges of stealing meat from the store while employed there. Doris Winifred Charlton, aged 42, a housewife, was fined £lO on each of two charges, and Irene Mary Robertson, aged 41, a housewife, was fined £7 10s on three similar charges. Both pleaded guilty last week.
The Magistrate refused to suppress their names. “The collapse of morality generally over the last few years is alarming,” he said. He said that if the women were not imprisoned, or could not pay a large fine, publica-
tion of names was practically the only real penalty available.
Seven years’ imprisonment was the maximum penalty for theft as a servant
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31378, 25 May 1967, Page 3
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