CARRIERS AND HONESTY
Commenting that the Courts would have to insist on a very high standard of cafe from carriers, who were custodians of the goods they carried and In a position of trust, Mr. A. M. Goulding, S.M., sentenced Lewis Edward Williams, a driver, to six months' hard labour for stealing two cartons of tumblers from a load of 86 cartons he was taking from the railway goods yard to Victoria Street. DetectiveSergeant J. Thompson said that stealing from the railways and wharves by carriers was very prevalent and very difficult to detect, and his instructions were to point out to the Court that that class of offence was rampant in the city. The accused was convicted and discharged for stealing two spanners.
■ Laurence Leonard William Nicholas, farmhand and soldier, aged 20, has been sentenced to eighteen months' Borstal detention by Mr. A. M. Goulding. S.M., for stealing a bicycle at Blenheim. He was convicted and discharged for stealing a wallet from a rconvmate in Wellington.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 67, 20 March 1943, Page 6
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