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THREE MONTHS’ GAOL

POSTMISTRESS’ THEFTS SUM OF £360 INVOLVED (Pur I’ross Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Sentence of three months’ imprisonment was passed by Mr. Justice Fair in the Supreme Court yesterday on Nora Wellington, who pleaded guilty to the theft of £3(50 from the Government.

Counsel said that his client was a single woman, aged 54. For the past 14 or 15 years she had been postmistress at Raukokore, near Opotiki. She had come to be well known and much respected in the district. Her first act of dishonesty occurred four years ago. when the house containing the Post Office was burned down. To cover the losses site falsified an account and afterward continued to do so.

His Honour said it was very painful to see a woman of hitherto respectable character in such a position. No satisfactory explanation had been given of what she had done with the money or why she took it. He saw no sufficient reason for departing from the ordinary rule that imprisonment must be imposed on persons in positions of trust for repeated offences over a considerable time.

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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20073, 20 October 1939, Page 4

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THREE MONTHS’ GAOL Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20073, 20 October 1939, Page 4

THREE MONTHS’ GAOL Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20073, 20 October 1939, Page 4

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