THEFT OF MOTOR TYRES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19412, 21 August 1926, Page 14

THEFT OF MOTOR TYRES.

STOREMAN'S DELINQUENCY. REFORMATIVE DETENTION. [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] WELLINGTON, Friday, Ten charges of theft pf motor tyres and tubes, of; a total value of £BB 16s 9d,.the property of Hatrick and Co., Ltd., were admitted by Colin • Stuart Waters, a storeman, aged 21 years, in the Magistrate's Court ; to-day. Chief-Detective Ward told the Court that the accused had. been working for Hatrick and Co. for seven and a-half years, latterly as a storeman. The goods had been taken between January 0 and July 16 and had been sold for £3B 19s. Accused's practice had been to represent that he could buy the goods wholesale and thus sell them at less than would have to be paid at Hatrick's. All the property had been recovered although most of it was slightly worh. Tho accused, however, had paid the difference, £49, to his firm. Nothing else was known against him and he came from a good home. In asking that a term of probation be imposed, Mr. J. W. Neilson said that Waters had recently taken to drinking. Nobody was more surprised than his employers when the thefts were discovered. Mr. E. Page, S.M., imposed a sentence of 12 months' reformative detention on the first charge and on each of the others ordered the accused to come up for sentence when called upon within 12 months. The magistrate said that Waters had been placed in a position of trust and had abused that trust.