SHARP WARNING
THEFTS BY EMPLOYEES AUCKLAND FIRM’S LOSSES (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. A warning that if similar cases continued to come before him of thefts by employees the penalty would be imprisonment was given by Mr. J. Morling, S.M., in the Police Court to-day, when 19 men and one girl, employees of Reid (Now Zealand) Rubber Mills, Limited, pleaded guilty to the theft of goods from the firm. The smallest individual amount involved was 3s, and the largest £9 ss, the goods comprising cycle tyres, hotwater bottles, rubber mats, tennis balls and rubber plugs. The police said that for the past three months a constable had been specially detailed to catch the ofienders. The magistrate fined all but two of the defendants —a girl and a youth aged 17—£10 each.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20310, 27 July 1940, Page 11
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