Stole Stamps Consigned As Waste Paper
INVERCARGILL, Dec. 14. Four men, whose names were suppressed, appeared in the Magistrate's Court today for sentence for the; theft of waste paper bearing postage • .stamps, the property of the Railway Department. The Magistrate said hej would flne aeeused in proportion to the ' profit they had made but would take into -consideration the extra labour ' and work done in their spare time, to take the stamps off the paper and to treat them. The aeeused niaking -the biggest proht, approximately £170, was -lined £40 on each of two eharges and costs on four other eharges. Another was (ined £35 on eaeh of two eharges and costs on four others. A third was fined £22 and £20 on each of two eharges with costs on four; and a fourth £30 and costs on three eharges. /The Magistrate said he could noi understand stamps going in as waste paper when they could be so easily rendered valueless by having a liole punched through them. In view of the faet that this was the, first ease of i'ts kind, he would suppress the names.
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 December 1948, Page 5
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187Stole Stamps Consigned As Waste Paper Chronicle (Levin), 15 December 1948, Page 5
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