CIVIL SERVANT'S LAPSE
BORROWING FROM MONEY-
LENDERS
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, 7th March. In sentencing Albert Robert .Elliott, aged 33, to 12 months' reformative detention to-day, Mr. Justice Reed at the Supreme Court pointed out the danger to Civil Servants who borrowed from money-lenders. Elliott, a former employee of the Post and Telegraph Department, had pleaded guilty in the Lower Court to two charges of stealing various sums of money totalling £166, the property of the PostmastevGeneral.
Addressing the prisoner, the Judge said: "It is a very sad case. You had an adequate salary of £288 a, year, but you got into difficulties. In taking over a house and not being able to keep up your payments, you adopted the foolish course of borrowing from moneylenders. Civil Servants who borrow from money-lenders may be taking the iy-st steps to crime. Money is borrowed at extortionate rates, and there must be a number of Civil" Servants .who have got into these difficulties.
"Prisoner, I should be very glad to give you probation because you are not the type of man to do it again, but I cannot do it in this class of case. You will be sentenced to reformative detention for 12 months."
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 57, 8 March 1932, Page 12
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CIVIL SERVANT'S LAPSE
Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 57, 8 March 1932, Page 12
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