RESPECT FOR OTHER PEOPLE’S PROPERTY
Magistrate’s Advice To Young Men
"l think it is a great pity that you young men should come before the Court for this sort of thing,” said Mr. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court. ■Wellington, yesterday, to four defendants who had admitted charges of theft. "You are quite old enough to know the difference between honesty and dishonesty and the difference between other people’s property and your own.
“At the present time there is it good deal of propaganda going around which urges jieople to think that they should not respect other people’s property. You will find, as you grow older, that that propaganda is all wrong, and that if you wish to do anything good in tills world, you should respect other people's property and respect Hie difference between right mid wrong mid honesty and dishonesty.” Accused were all young men on the threshold of life, said the magistrate, and lie would accordingly admit them to 12 months’ probation and suppress their names.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 39, 9 November 1940, Page 12
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