POSTAL PACKETS STOLEN.
MESSENGER BOY'S LAPSE. THRASHING RECOMMENDED. Seven charges of stealing postal packets from a suburban post office were admitted by a boy, aged 15, in the Police Court yesterday. In admitting the boy to probation for two years, Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., suggested to the father that he should administer a thrashing. The boy had been employed in the post office as a messenger since last February. Seeing samples of face powder, manicure sets and otiier articles going through the post he fell to the temptation to steal them. The police stated the boy's parents were respectable and ho had previously borne a good character. In announcing his decision, the magistrate said much misery and misfortune was caused through people not getting their mail. Besides that there was always the chance of innocent persons coming under the shadow of suspicion.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19762, 8 October 1927, Page 14
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