THEFT OF POSTAL NOTES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 105, 5 May 1915, Page 8

THEFT OF POSTAL NOTES

A young man named Arthur Henry Douglas MacDougall, 19 years of age, who was employed as a clerk in the Agricultural Department, was arrested to-day by Detective-Sergeant Rawle on five charges of theft of letters containing postal notes. The total amount involved is 15s. The letters, it is alleged, were either stolen from off the table at the Department's office, or from the post-office box. Accused appeared before Mr. W. G. Riddell. S.M., this afternoon, and plerwJed guilty. Chief-Detective Boddam said that accused had previously borne an excellent' character. His Worship agreed to treat the charges as one offence. He warned MacDougall of the serious nature of the thefts, and advised him to go straight in the future. MacDougall was convicted and ordered tocome up for sentence when called upon.

A private cable message received in Wellington states that Mr. Trevor Holmdeh. solicitor (son of Mr. H. H. Holmden, of Kelburn), who is with the New Zealand Forces abroad, has received a commission. He left the Dominion with the Main body as a sergeant in the Auckland section. • Lieutenant A. B. P. Hawkins, of Napier, has received a captaincy in the Imperial ArmY (states a Napier Piese Association telegram)..