‘Check for coppers’
PA Auckland An Otahuhu magistrate, Mr K. H. Mason, sounded a “charitable warning” when he said people would be well advised to look at the coins they deposited in newspaper honesty boxes. He had just dismissed, "with some hesitation,” a charge of theft against a 24-year-old man who denied stealing a newspaper from an honesty box in Otahuhu.
There was a reasonable doubt, he said, that the man honestly mistook the 5-cent and 1-cent pieces he put in the box for two 5-cent pieces.
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Press, 7 December 1976, Page 26
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