THEFT OF TWO TYRES
STOREMAN’S OFFENCE How two old motor tyres belonging to the Public Works Department had been sold to a man who was “desperately in need of tyres” was related in the Whakatane Magistrate’s Court yesterday when Henry Edward Phillips, pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing two motor truck tyres, valued at £7 15s on December 20, 1945. Sergeant Farrell stated that Phillips had been quite frank about the matter and had admitted taking the tyres and selling them to a friend. Phillips had been employed as a storeman by the Department. The tyres had been set aside to be sent to the waste rubber works and had been valued at only £4. Phillips had never been before the court before, and as a result of this act of his he had lost his position with the department. Mr Otley, who appeared for Phillips, asked for the suppression of his name.
The magistrate, Mr E. L. Walton, said Phillips would be convicted and admitted to probation for a period of six months, and ordered to make restitution of £7 15s.
“I will hot make an order for suppression of the name,” added the magistrate.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 36, 4 June 1947, Page 5
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197THEFT OF TWO TYRES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 36, 4 June 1947, Page 5
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