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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4310, 29 August 1921, Page 2

Girls and lads do much of the banking for Sydney firms, and they are always incurring risks (writes the Sydney correspondent ot th eMelbourne “Argus”). Eyes keenly estimating and assessing follow them back and forth. The police know that there are many hawks waiting for opportunities to pounce on jthbse pigeons. The banks are free .to the thieves. They go in at the busy hours," take up pens, and may be making up deposit slips. There is no reason for anyone to bother. There is a little crow! round a receiving teller, and a thief joins in. Perhaps six to a. dozen deposits are on the counter one behind the other. A depositor, seeing a long wait ahead, goes off to do some other bank business. Presently a hand reaches forward, takes* up the deposit of the absentee as determined by prior observation, and is piesu’med by the lookers-on to be the hand of the owner, who is going to get earlier attention from a neighbouring teller. Later, there is a'hue and cry, without result. Sentences of the Courts are, as a rule, so light that many are tempted to “take a fly,” as it is termed. Several have succeeded, and not one has been detected in the act.