STRONG PUNISHMENT
THEFT OF MAILBAGS
MORERE POST OFFICE CASK '
(By Telegraph—Press Association..)
HASTINGS,' November 2. / Three years' reformative detwtioa! ahd seven years'' probation wert' imposed by his Honour Mr. Justice Bliit* in the Supreme Court, Napier* today: on Fred Ratpru Kirk, who appeared ,'. for sentence after- having pleaded guilty in- the Lower Court to. charges ,of the theft of mailbags and breaking and entering, and theft. The charges' arose out of the recent destruction bjf, fire of the Morere 5-Post Office. "This appears to me •to be a case which-1 must meet with very strong punishment; I am very sorry, about . that, because you seem to be an in* dustrious worker and a good father* '. said his Honour to the prisoner. "However, you have caused losses that can never be made good.'The law. provides a maximum penalty." of M. years for breaking open mailbag*. X mention that fact just to show jMt with what degree of gravity th* &t» \ fence is looked on by the authoriti**.'*
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 108, 3 November 1939, Page 13
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166STRONG PUNISHMENT Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 108, 3 November 1939, Page 13
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