Girl Fined $100 For Theft As Servant

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32005, 4 June 1969, Page 28

Girl Fined $100 For Theft As Servant

(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 3. Dianne Jane Durham, a 19-year-old clerk who stole a Treasury cheque worth $5OO, was fined $lOO, placed on probation for two years, and ordered to pay restitution of the $5OO when she appeared for sentence in the Magistrate’s Court today.

. She. was convicted and discharged on two further charges of forgery and uttering. Mr D. J. Sullivan, S.M., refused to continue suppression of the girl’s name, saying that this was her second offence

for theft as a servant, and on the first occasion she had been dealt with very leniently. Durham stole the cheque from her employer, the Treasury, and deposited it in her own Post Office account after forging the recipient’s signature. She had made withdrawals amounting to $3OO. In placing Durham on probation, the Magistrate said that her behaviour threw some doubt on the church organisation under whose supervision she had been placed after her first offence.

“It is obvious a more powerful force than the church, organisation must deal with you;” he said.