LAZINESS OF THE POSTMAN

Taranaki Daily News, 3 October 1930, Page 4

LAZINESS OF THE POSTMAN

letters kept in his locker COURT: IMPOSES FINE,OF, £5. ' By Telegraph.—Press Association. ■Christchurch, Oct. 2. ; “Owing to your neglect and laziness you may have caused untold' harm ami suffering to many people,” said Mr. Mosley, S.M., when dealing with George Douglass Otten, a .postman, aged 18. who appeared on. seven' charges Of wilfully detaining letters. Otten was fined £5, in default a month’s hard labour. . ’ ■' \ “There is no suggestion.. of dishonesty.” said Chief Detective. Carroll. “Accused was employed as a postman, and in his locker at the office 285 letters that should have been delivered were found. The young man’s explanation is that he put the letters in the locker intending to ’ deliver them, but wet weather followed and he put'it off until in ’the end h« afraid to deliy* r th ear. ”