STOLE FITTINGS.
FROM STATE HOUSES. TWO MEN IN COURT. BOTH TREATED LENIENTLY. [By Tejeffraph. —l'reaa Association] AUCKLAND, April 8. Two" plasterers, Arthur Edward Hart (25) and Harold Martin (33), at tho Police Court to-day admitted stealing two copper floats, one tap and ono brass stopcock arm while working on the State housing scheme at Orakei on January 10.
Martin also pleaded guilty to the theft of a handsaw while working on the Casoy Estato scheme at Ponsonby about March 29. "We have had a lot of these thefts from houses which are in course of erection," said Detective-Sergeant Nalder.
The magistrate, Mr. 0. R. OrrWalker: There was nothing much to gain by taking these things, although they have a certain value. One cannot
look on it as trivial by aay means to take tools and fittings from buildings in course of erection. It is so easily done.
Martin was admitted to probation for six monts, and Hart, who the mag istrate said was apparentlv not tho principal offender, was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six months.
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Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20285, 9 April 1938, Page 3
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