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Evening Star, Issue 19942, 11 August 1928, Page 2

Tho Wellington magistrate (Mr E. in a. reserved jndment dismissed the' charges of stealing records and receiving electrical fittings preferred against Sidney Frederick William Vausc. The defendant was head of the gramophone department of his firm’s business, and was authorised to give away for the purposes of the firm’s business such record's as he thought fit. To constitute theft goods must be taken without colour of right.. In regard to tho electrical apparatus, tho evidence showed that for many years the defendant, who was the only one in the linn’s employ possessing technical knowledge on tlie point, had made a practice, with tho knowledge of his employers, of taking homo and testing appliances, whether of his own firm or other firms with which he did business. Ho was not satisfied that the defendant’s action in receiving the goods was other than honest,