GAOL FOR SHOPLIFTING.
BUSINESS REQUIRES TRUST. PROTECTION OF THE TRADER. fBV TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] CHRIST/CHURCH. Friday. Tho three married women who wore sentenced on Wednesday of last week to a month's imprisonment each on shopHitir.g charges concerning two shops were brought before the magistrate again this afternoon on a further count.
In giving his derision, Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., said that the circumstances of the crime confirmed the opinion expressed that the women had been engagod in systematic shop-lifting. How long it had been going on he could not say. Modem conditions of the retail trade rendered it obligatory for the trader to trust people with the handling of goods and people must realise (heir responsibility in the matter. Each of the accused would be sentenced to 19 days' imprisonment, the period to be concurrent with that of the previous sentence.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18891, 13 December 1924, Page 10
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141GAOL FOR SHOPLIFTING. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18891, 13 December 1924, Page 10
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