UNDELIVERED LETTERS
YOUNG POSTMAN FINED. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, October 2. ) “Owing to your neglect and laziness, you may have caused untold harm and suffering to many people,” said Mr. Mosley, S.M, when dealing with George Douglas Otten, a postman, aged IS, who appeared on seven charges of wilfully detaining letters. Otten was convicted and fined £5, in default one month’s hard labour. “There is no suggestion of dishonesty,” said Chief-Detective Carroll. “Accused was employed as a postman, and in his locker at the office 285 letters that' should have been delivered, were found. The young man’s explanation is that he put the letters in tho locker, intending to deliver them, but wet weather followed, and he pdt it off until in the end he was afraid to deliver them.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 October 1930, Page 6
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130UNDELIVERED LETTERS Greymouth Evening Star, 2 October 1930, Page 6
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