PUBLIC SERVANTS’ THEFTS
"POSITION OF TRUST
‘'The probation officer does not recommend probation, and it is very rarely that probation is granted in cases of this kind. Prisoner occupied a position of trust, which he betrayed,” said Mr. Justice Sim, in the Supreme Court yesterday, when passing a sentence of three years’ reformative detention on George Hutchison Lang, late registrar of the Supreme Court at Palmerston North, who had pleaded guilty to theft as a servant, involving £209. Prisoner, when asked if he had anything to say, said he would like His Honour to grant him freedom under conditions that would enable him to support his family. “There vs another statement I would like to make,” he added. "A newspaper report of proceedings in the lower Court made it appear that I criticised the present administration of the Justice Department. I had no intention whatever of criticising the present administration. The newspaper report gave a wrong impression. I have nothing but respect for the present administration and for the late Mr. Matthews.”
Mr. P. S. K. Macassey (Crown Prosecutor): “That is correct. I was going to point that out.” Prisoner, added Mr. Macassey, had been a bard-working and efficient officer.
His Honour then passed sentence.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 5, 1 October 1926, Page 5
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