THEFT OF MONEYS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 108, 7 April 1936, Page 7

THEFT OF MONEYS.

SENTENCES IMPOSED. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, April 6. Sentence of 12 months’ imprisonment was passed * in the Supreme Court to-day on Harold James Lawrence for the theft of £341 from Dalgety and Coy., Ltd., at Whangarei. Mr Justice Fair said that, although probation- might be of assistance to prisoner, to grant it would be doing a great deal of injury to others who foun dthemselves in a similar position. A young man who had had several years’ service with the Tourist Department, Leonard Bruce Wright, was fined and admitted to probation on seven charges of theft as a servant. “This is another case of the type that has been coming before the Court rather frequently in the last : few months,” said His Honour, “where a young man has stolen money over a considerable period without any special pressure of circumstances compelling him to that course, but simply because the salary he was reeciving was insufficient to meet bis ideas of the pleasures be should indulge in. Even a young man must realise that such a course is likely to wreck his career.” With considerable hesitation, His Honour said, he would admit accused to probation for two years. He would also be ordered to make restitution of the total amount of the money stolen, and to pay a fine of £25, and the costs of the prosecution.