Dishonesty: Chief Justice’s Views
(P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. There appeared to be a wave of dishonesty passing through the country, apparently directed mainly at breaking and entering warehouses and dwellings and in stealing goods in transit on the railways, wharves, and ships, said the Chief Justice, Sir Humphrey O’Leary, addressing the grand jury to-day. “There appears to be a type of person about in alarming numbers who has no regard for the property of others and does not steal from want, but because he wants more money to spend or else more property with which to enjoy the pleasures and amenities of life,” said his Honor. “An unattended house appears to be a particularly easy mark. It is to-day almost unsafe to leave a house unoccupied , because of the depredations of a certain class of individual. It is deplorable. Judges and junes must see that the law is administered in such a way that appropriate penalties can be imposed.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 February 1947, Page 2
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