THEFT OF MONEY
POSTAL OFFICIAL CHARGED
(By i'elearu;jli—l'lf.ss- Aosucialiuu.i AUCKLAND, This Day. A postal official, Oswald Utting, aged 21, pleaded guilty in the Police Court to seventeen charges of stealirfg sums totalling £60 from postal packets. The police said that the Postal Department viewed such thefts very seriously-. They involved suspicion on 80 other employees of the mail sorting branch. Utting's system was never to j steal a letter which he himself had handled, but 4o take letters handled by other sorters. It was the first time he had been in trouble. The police suggested a penalty that would be a deterrent for others. A strong appeal for leniency was made by defending counsel, who said that Utting had lost money on betting.! The Magistrate, Mr. F. H. Levien, j imposed fines totalling £25 and admitted the accused to three years' probation, conditional on restitution being made and that the accused refrain from going on racecourses during the period j of probation.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 100, 24 October 1940, Page 12
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162THEFT OF MONEY Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 100, 24 October 1940, Page 12
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