"PERNICIOUS SYSTEM"
TIME PAYMENT TEMPTATION
.'• (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND,-13th May. "This is a pernicious system," said Chief-Detective Hammond at the Police Court, to-day in a case in which Willianv Eoberts, aged 22, a labourer, pleaded guilty to stealing a wristlet watch valued at' £5 12s Cd, and a gramophone valued at £11, which he had obtained on time-payment. j
Mr. 1\ K. Hunt, S.M., in admitting accused to probation, said that, it was a pernicious • system. Firms should give, goods only to responsible persons ,who possessed homes. Mr. Hammond said the watch and gramophone had both been bought on a small deposit, and subsequently accused had pledged the. watc,h and sold the gramophone. ~.' . . Mr. Campbell, Probation Officer, referring to the time-payment system and the way it could be' abused, told of a case where a man had been admitted to probation at the Police Court at 10 a.m. and at 11 a.m. had bought a bicycle' On a 2s deposit and afterwards sold it.
Roberts was ordered to make restitution to the amount of £15 ss.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 112, 14 May 1930, Page 13
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"PERNICIOUS SYSTEM"
Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 112, 14 May 1930, Page 13
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