SOLDIERS' PARCELS STOLEN
POSTAL WORKER SENTENCED EIGHTEEN MONTHS' HARD LABOUR (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 29. "The public's confidence in the postal service must be maintained," said Mr Justice Northcroft to-day, when he sentenced William Irvine to hard labour for 18 months upon seven charges of stealing postal packets addressed to soldiers Counsel said that the lack of motive for the crimes made it difficult to understand them Irvine himself, however, had served for eight years In a well-known regiment in the Old Country, and in the last war had received injuries that were obvious to-day. Relatives confirmed that his behaviour was that of a melancholy and eccentric man 'You yourself, as an ex-solder, must have been conscious of the fact thai distress and disappointment would be suffered by soldiers and the persons who consigned the articles." said his Honor. "At the same time you must have known that offences of this kind threw' suspicion on the whole of the service. In addition to being a plain thief, you were disloyal to the service."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24699, 30 August 1941, Page 11
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