STOLEN MAIL BAGS
ROBBERY AT MORERE SENTENCE BY JUDGE DETENTION—PROBATION (Per Press Association.) NAPIER, this day. Three years’ reformative detention and seven years’ probation were imposed by Mr. Justice Blair in the Supreme Court at Napier yesterday on Fred Ratoru Kirk, who appeared for sentence after having pleaded guilty in the lower court proceedings to charges of the theft of mail bags and breaking and 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. I am very sorry about that, because you seem to be. an industrious worker and a good father,” commented His Honour when addressing the prisoner. “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. I mention that fact just to show you with what degree of gravity the offence is looked upon by the authorities.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20085, 3 November 1939, Page 4
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170STOLEN MAIL BAGS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20085, 3 November 1939, Page 4
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