THEFT OF POSTAL PACKET
(IT TK.BGKAPH.—PBIS9 ASSOCIATION.) ■•■• ■,• WANGANUII 26th August. , At the Supreme Court, to-day, J. "A. Hawkins was sentenced for the theft of a postal packet at Mangaw^eka to twelve months' reformative detention: The Judge made a recommendation that he should be sent to an industrial school until he is twenty-one years of age. His Honour pointed out that the offence was one in which he could not grant probation, except in very exceptional circumstances. It was. a very serious offence to interfere with letters passing through the Post Office. ; , Herbert Williams, for breaking and entering and theft, at, .Waverley, w»i Mntcnced to twelve months' reformative detention. . J
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 49, 26 August 1922, Page 11
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109THEFT OF POSTAL PACKET Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 49, 26 August 1922, Page 11
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