YOUTH'S BREACH DUTY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18458, 23 July 1923, Page 6

YOUTH'S BREACH DUTY.

' . O ' "'■ 7 5 .. : V}»f'.v--.Vs •>*..•' •^ CRIME - BECOMING COMMON. / _ REFUSAL . OF . PROBATION., [BY TELEGRAPH.PRESS ASSOCIATION.];' , CHSISTCHUROH. Saturday. ? ; Edward Brrib Cartter, : aged 19, a postal , officer at pfe timer, . appeared for sentence on a charge of 'having stolen money lodged, in the Post Office .Savings - Bank. Accused's counsel said prisoner seemed to havo ; got into a gambling Get, and felt . the need of money. ; He , was . noi charged with, any interference with correspondence. ( ' Bis Honor . said he had been , misinformed on that V point.) " I thint" it iris ab&oluely essential ; that it should bo known by all • persons occupying positions similar to the one that jou occupied tliat they cannot commit' theft, an& then conn to Court- and expect to be admitted -to probation," said - Mr. Justice Reed. . Us ' had given the: case a good' deal of . anxious thought on account of prisoner's age, but came to the conclusion' that iii wail not a ' case for probation. The cJ !rne of breach of duty was becoming very common in New Zealand. -- There was a,'great number /of cases of stealing from the Government, also from private employers,' Prisoner would - be detained for reformative : treatment purposes for 12 months. V ;-f