THIEVING OF PLANTS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21216, 10 December 1938, Page 19

THIEVING OF PLANTS

MAN SENT TO PRISON By Telegrapn—Press Association AUCKLAND, December 9. There is so much thieving of plants and flowers in parks and reserves that sometimes gardeners have to be detailed to watch, said sub-inspector Fox in the Police Court, when George Brown pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing five plants, valued at 6/-, the property of the Auckland City Council. In this case two men were on special duty In the Auckland Domain last Sunday, and they saw the defendant take some chrysanthemum slips from a box, said Sub-Inspector Fox. When they approached him he produced the slips from beneath his coat. Those in charge of gardens were given considerable trouble owing to thieving. “I take it that the stealing of flowers from parks is prevalent, and is seldom detected,” said the Magistrate (Mr C. R. Orr Walker). “I cannot accept defendant’s statement that he thought they were useless.” “This will show that people cannot thieve from public gardens,” added the Magistrate in imposing a setence of 48 hours’ imprisonment, with bard labour.