THEFT OF A MAIL BAG.
YOUTH PLEADS GUILTY. SUPPRESSION OF NAME REFUSED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday. “This youth made a decisive and deliberate attempt to break a declaration he made when he joined the Postal Department, and the only punishment that can be given him is' the reprobation .of his fellow-men.” This remark was made by Mr Mosley, S.M., in refusing to suppress the name of William Roy Mills Young, a postal officer, who had admitted stealing a registered letter mail-bag. The magistrate said lie would not suppress the name of a public officer who was in a position of trust.
Mills pleaded guilty, and was com mitted for sentence.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 3 December 1926, Page 5
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