THEFT OF POSTAL PACKETS
l By Telegraph—l’iess Association.i CHRISTCHURCH, August 29.
"The public’s confidence in the postal service must be maintained,” said Mr Justice Northcroft to-day when lie sentenced AVilliain Irvine to bard labour for 18 months on seven charges ot' stealing postal packets addressed to soldiers.
Counsel said the lack of a motive for the crimes made it difficult to understand (belli. Irvine himself, however, had served for eight years in a well-known regiment in tlie Ohl Country and in I lie last war received injuries that were obvious today. Relatives confirmed tliat ills behaviour was that of a melancholy and eccentric man.
"You yourself as an ex-soldier must have been conscious of (lie fact tliat distress and disappointment would be suffered by soldiers and the persons who consigned the articles,” said his Honour. "At the same time you must have known that offences of this kind threw suspicion on the whole of the service. In addition to being a plain thief you were disloyal to the ser-
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 286, 30 August 1941, Page 10
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