PROBATION GRANTED
THEFT BY A TELLER COMMENT BY JUDGE (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. In admitting Vincent Brinsley Nielsen, aged 38. a telegraphist, to two years’ probation for theft while a teller at the Te Aro Post Office, the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, in the' Supreme Court to-day, said that the sending of a man to prison would make him a liability c>:i the State and, more than ever in these days, every effort should ’be made to see that every person was an asset. Probation was granted upon the ground that the court thought the prisoner could be converted into an asset. Two years’ probation was also given in the case of Eric Entwhistle Lester, aged 23, who destroyed by fire a car he was buying on the hire purchase system. His Honour took into account the prisoner’s youth and the fact that as far as was known he had previously borne a good character.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20035, 6 September 1939, Page 14
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158PROBATION GRANTED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20035, 6 September 1939, Page 14
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