SHOPLIFTERS PUNISHED.
TO PROTECT SHOPKEEPERS. (Bv Telegraph.— Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. " Shoplifters must be punished severely, because shopkeepers must be protected, and they have a right to trust their customers," said the magistrate in fining Prances Matilda Richards £lO for stealing a piece of curtaining, valued at 9s 6d, from a shop. The magistrate refused to the suppression of her name, and said it was really necessary in all shoplifting cases that the accused should be sent to gaol.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1420, 25 October 1923, Page 5
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79SHOPLIFTERS PUNISHED. Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1420, 25 October 1923, Page 5
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