CRIME AGAINST PROPERTY
POSTAL OFFICIAL SENTENCED,
[Fib United Prkss Association.]
CHRISTCHURCH, July 20.
Martin Matthew Holland, a postal official, aged twenty-three, for the theft of postal packages at Darfield, was sentenced to eighteen months’ reformative detention by Mr Justice Reed, who said that untold misery might follow 1 10 Left of letters, and ‘hat the country must be protected. Edward Bryan Carter, aged nineteen, B postal officer at Hanmer, for the theft of money from the post office, was remanded till to-morrow.
Other prisoners sentenced were : Thomas Steel Weir (theft of moneys from Bidkind, a moneylender), three '.ears’ probation, restitution to bo made by instalments ; Leonard Rees Wilkinson (breaking and entering), reformative detention for six months; Ernest William Thompson, aged twenty-one, a Weraroa Training Farm youth (false pretences), one , jetg’s reformative treatment.
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Evening Star, Issue 18332, 20 July 1923, Page 8
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132CRIME AGAINST PROPERTY Evening Star, Issue 18332, 20 July 1923, Page 8
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