STEALING TO BET
POSTAL OFFICIAL PLEADS
GUILTY
(United Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, This Day
The theft of £l6O was admitted by James Thomas Foster ITowartli, who pleaded guilty at the Police Court to a charge of having stolen £B2 7s Bd, the property of the New Zealand Government, at Tuakau. He gave a farmer a receipt for that amount, but failed to hand the money in, destroying the duplicate of the receipt. Accused in a statement admitted he had misappropriated other sums to the total of £167 while a postal officer at Tuakau. He lost it in betting. Accused was committed for sentence.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 16 June 1924, Page 5
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102STEALING TO BET Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 16 June 1924, Page 5
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