POSTMASTER’S THEFT
THE COURT’S SENTENCE. [ Per Press Association. I AUCKLAND, June 22. William Richard Holmes, formerly postmaster at Mt. Eden for nine years, was sentenced to two years' reformative detention for theft (£6OO of Gov eminent money), to which he [Headed guilty. Judge Smith said that, he did not think prisoner should be held in close confinement. The Court took into con .sidcratioit the fact that Holmes loses £3OO of superannuation money.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 146, 23 June 1931, Page 8
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72POSTMASTER’S THEFT Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 146, 23 June 1931, Page 8
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