A POSTAL CLERK’S LAPSE
CHARGES If THEFT [Per Exited Press Association.] WELLINGTON, March 27. Douglas Arthur Burnett, aged twenty-two, a postal clerk, appeared in the Magistrate’s Court on nine charges ot stealing letters . containing postal notes to the value of £9 15s. Evidence was given that till a week ago accused was a postal cadet at a salary of £155 per year. His duties consisted of sorting letters in the mail room and assisting the agent on the main trunk trains to sort letters between Wellington and Taihape and hack. When faced with the charges iu regard to two notes lie had cashed iu Wellington, the accused was quite candid, and gave information of other thefts of which the department was ignorant. lie was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.
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Evening Star, Issue 20135, 27 March 1929, Page 7
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131A POSTAL CLERK’S LAPSE Evening Star, Issue 20135, 27 March 1929, Page 7
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