PETTY THEFTS

Northern Advocate, 20 July 1933, Page 4

PETTY THEFTS

If all reports be true, petty thieving is more common in Whangarei than it should he. This is particularly the ea«o on football fields and in dance halls and other places where it is necessary for people to remove portions of them clothing and equipment. Football players, it is said, have lost hoots, overcoats and other articles of clothing at various times, apart, frrnn money having been abstracted from pockets. Sneak thieving is a particularly mean occupation, and, from the circumstances in winch it usually takes place it is very difficult to detect. It therefore, behoves the member-? of the public to do what they can to co-oper-ate with the police in bringing to justice any of the light-fin-gered fraternity whom they may discover. It must- also he said that those responsible for the conduct of out door sports ■jr indoor entertainments have resting upon them a responsibility to make the ope ration*. of srmak thieves as difficult as possible. This they can do by either providing lock-up facilities for clothing or valuables, or appointing caretakers whose duties shall consist of keeping guard over dressing-rooms during the progress of any match or other occupation which may temporarily necessitate the absence of the owners of property.* j