THEFT AT WIGRAM
ANOTHER MAN SENTENCED By Telegraph—Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, June 22. “This is another of the Wigram thefts and is regarded as very serious by the Air Department, particularly as this man was placed in a position of trust,’’ declared Detective-Sergeant Sinclair in the Magistrate's Court this morning, when Aircraftsman James Spencer Austin Sheard, aged 25, was charged with the theft of two yards of cloth, valued at £l/3/7, the property of the New Zealand Air Department. Sheard, who pleaded guilty, was convicted and fined £lO, in default 14 days’ gaol with hard labour, by Mr E. S. Levvey, S.M. Detective-Sergeant Sinclair said that Sheard had been employed by the Air Department since October, 1937. He had been in charge of spares in the parachute department at Wigram. He had stolen the cloth ' from the stores department and had it made into a pair of trousers. They had been recovered.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21379, 23 June 1939, Page 5
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151THEFT AT WIGRAM Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21379, 23 June 1939, Page 5
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