SOFT MORALS
Suggested Basis For Crime Wave “It is rather a pity that a man of vour age and your record should hate fallen to this wave of crime that seems to be sweeping New Zealand theils from employers, thefts from the railway vards and thefts from, the waterside. t said Mr. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrates Court Wellington, yesterday, when admitting Albert Leslie Holland, carpenter, 54, to probation for 18 months tor theft. The magistrate said that the wave of crime might be attributable to soft morals caused by over-pampering. Holland, for whom Mr. A. B. bievwright put forward a plea for leniency, pleaded guilty to stealing an electric roaster pan valued at 36/-, and articles of hardware of a total value of Detective-Sergeant W. McLennan said the thefts had occurred while accused had been working at tlie Dixon Street flats, but all the goods had been recovered.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 307, 22 September 1943, Page 6
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