UNDELIVERED LETTERS
FATAL PROCRASTINATION.
YOUNG POSTMAN REPRIMANDED
(Per Press Association. —Copyright.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day
“Owing to your neglect am] lazi ness, yon may have caused untold harm and suffering to many people,” said Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., when dealing with George Douglas Often, a postman, aged IS, who appeared on seven charges of wilfully detaining letters. Otten was convicted find fined £5, in default a 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 28") letters which should have been delivered were found. The young man’s explanation is that he put the letters in the locker intending to deliver them, but bad weather followed, and ho put it off until, in the end, he was afraid to deliver them.
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Northern Advocate, 3 October 1930, Page 8
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