THEFTS FROM PACKETS
POSTAL EMPLOYEE ADMITS CHARGES ADMITTED TO PROEATION [United Press Association] AUCKLAND, This Day. A postal official, Oswald Utting, aged 21, pleaded guilty in the Police Court to seventeen charges of stealing sums totalling £6O from postal packets. The police said the Postal Department viewed such thefts very seriously. It involved suspicion on eighty other employees of the mail sorting branch. Utting’s system was never to steal a letter which he himself had handled but to take letters handled by other sorters. It was the first time he had been in trouble. The police suggested a penalty that would be a deterrent to others. A strong appeal was made for leniency by defending jounsel, Mr Buit. He said Utting had lost money on betting. The Magistrate, Mr Levien, imposed fines totalling £25 and admitted accused to three years’ probation conditional on restitution of the money stolen and not to gj on a raceco rse during his prot~ A ion.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 24 October 1940, Page 6
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