POSTAL OFFICER’S LAPSE
TWO THEFTS ADMITTED. _ By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. In the Police Court two Government officials, serving in different depart- . ments, were charged with theft. Harold James Henry Smith, aged 38, a postal clerk, pleaded guilty to stealing a letter containing four one'pound notes and a postal note for five shillings, and on August 8 a postal packet containing £2 10s in money. In a statement to the police accused attributed his lapse to a sudden temptation prompted by having some house bills to pay. Accused was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence, bail being allowed. . '
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 August 1929, Page 9
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