"DOWNRIGHT LAZY"
NEGLIGENT POSTMEN (P..,- Press Association.) ( lIBISTOIIUBCII, this day. L, Up. Magisl rate's Court two postmen Isaac Ceil Ward, :iO, and William' Charles b'attray, 28, pleaded guilty in charges of detaining postal packets. . The police slated thai after their rounds had been completed the bags of the accused were searched and found to contain matter which should have been delivered weeks earlier. Dishonesty was not suggested, but downright laziness. Th-e magistrate lined each £3, in default one month's gaol, saying that these men were Government servants in a position of trust. If a man was nol prepared to honor his trust, let him gel out.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16869, 5 February 1929, Page 8
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106"DOWNRIGHT LAZY" Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16869, 5 February 1929, Page 8
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