NO SENSE OF

NZ Truth, Issue 1263, 13 February 1930, Page 11

NO SENSE OF

VALUE

Young Waitress's Lapse STOLEN SHOES (From' "N.Z. Truth's" Christchurch Rep.) ; LJER love for,. gaudy and superficial article? has , brought trouble to Mavis Kona Fitzgerald, a 20 -years- old, Christchurch waitress. While working .m a city cafe, the girl came across a pair of shoes belonging to a fellow employee, and, as the soles were worn, she thought that they had bee^n thrown away and took them. She then left her position for another, and after having the shoes repaired, she wore. them. Later she was arrested on a charge of having stolen the shoes and was brought before the Christchurch Magistrate's Court, where she pleaded guilty to the charge. Her counsel, Mr. M. J. Burns, explained that when she took the shoes she thought they had been thrown away. The fact that she wore them showed that she did not have a guilty conscience m the matter. The girl's home life, said counsel, was not of the best. The mother was a good woman, who had recently obtained a separation order from her husband. / The girl had never been before the court before, nor had she done anything dishonest. The Magistrate, Mr. H. P. Lawry, S.M., remarked that the Probation Officer's report stated that the girl had no sense of value. She wished to procure articles of a gaudy and superficial nature rather than essentials. The girl was convicted and sentenced to two years' probation. She was ordered to pay £1, the value of the shoes.