MAILBAG ROBBERY
MORERE POST OFFICE FIRE PRISONER SENTENCED (By Telegraph.—Press Association) NAPIER, Thursday Three years’ reformative detention and seven years’ probation were imposed by Mr Justice Blair in the Supreme Court at Napier today on Fred Ratoru Kirk, who appeared for sentence after having pleaded guilty in the Lower Court to charges of theft of mail bags and breaking, entering and theft. The charges arose out of the recent destruction by fire of the Morere post office. “This appears to me to be a case which I must meet with very strong punishment,” said His Honour to prisoner. “I am very sorry about that, because you seem to be an industrious worker and a good father. However, you have caused losses that can never be made good. “The law provides a maximum penalty of 14 years for breaking open mail bags,” added His Honour. “1 mention that fact just to show you with what degree of gravity the offence is looked upon by the authorities.” Sentence was then imposed.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20952, 3 November 1939, Page 10
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