CONDUCTOR'S LAPSE
TAKINGS LOST IN BETS
James Fergus Baxter, 22-year-old labourer, obtained employment with the Wellington city tramways as a conductor, but on November 17, having retained his day's takings when he finished the first part of his shift, he went drinking, lost part of the tramway money in bets, and went to the Otaki races the following day in an effort to recoup his losses. The remainder of the £11 8s 7d for which he was responsible went the way of the first, and on Monday he presented himself to the police and made a confession.
These details were explained by SubInspector J. Mclntyre when Baxter was charged in the Magistrate's Court on Thursday before Mr. J. L. Stout S M with the theft of the money and remanded for a report by the probation officer. When the report was before him yesterday, the Magistrate told the defendant he would be given another chance. He was admitted to probation for eighteen months, a condition being that he took up employment offering to him, stayed there unless he received the probation officer s permission to leave, and refunded the money at the rate of £1 10s weekly as soon as he started work.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 133, 2 December 1944, Page 9
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203CONDUCTOR'S LAPSE Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 133, 2 December 1944, Page 9
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