THEFT OF PAINT
For the theft from bis employers of two tins of paint valued at I</G, Clarence Mollier, a young married man, was convicted and'ordered to come "P for sentence within three ..mouths, when lie appeared in tile Magistrates Court, Wellington. yesterday. before Mr. Stout, S M His explanation when accosted in the act of taking the paint away, sain Senior-Sergeant G. .1. Paine, was that he wanted it for an aged couple. Mollier said he had wanted to do the couple a good turn. They had promised tn make him a fire-screen if lie could get some paint for the roof of their house. The magistrate: Il's all very well to be generous at somebody else s _ expense. Why didn’t you buy the paint? Mollier: 1 didn't have the money—l i only get £4/S/6 a week.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 127, 22 February 1941, Page 13
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138THEFT OF PAINT Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 127, 22 February 1941, Page 13
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