POSTAL CLERK'S THEFTS
CASE FROM NGARUAWAHIA PROBATION FOR OFFENDER On two, charges of stealing money totalling £2l 12s 9d, the property of the Postmaster-General, Robert James Gillies, aged 37, clerk and telegraphist, appeared for sentence in the Supreme Court yesterday. He had previously pleaded guilty to the offences. In asking for leniency Mr. N. S. Johnson, of Hamilton, said prisoner had been an employee of the Post and Telegraph Department for 23 years and had been stationed at Ngaruawahia for the last 12 years. Prior to the commission of these offences he had an unblemished record. He had been receiving medical attention for some while and suffered from "nerve storms." Mr. Justice Ostler said it was only a few years ago that the Court refused to grant probation to postal officials who abused their trust. However, in the present case consideration would bo given to the fact that prisoner's stability had been upset to a certain extent by war service and mental strain. Prisoner* would be admitted to probation for two years on condition that he made restitution from his superannuation savings.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21806, 22 May 1934, Page 13
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