LURE OF CHOCOLATE
YOUTH DESTROYS PARCELS (From Our Oicn Correspondent) PUKEKOHE, Wednesday. A young employee of the Postal Department, whose name was suppressed pleaded guilty in the Pukekohe Police Court to-day to destroying five postal packets containing chocolate, while an employee of the Postal Department, delaying delivery of a postal packet entrusted to him for delivery, and converting a car to his use. The police said that accused had aken the chocolate for himself, and had also neglected to deliver a postal packet addressed to a person who resided some way off the road. These offences had resulted in his dismissal from the postal department. Later, he had taken a car from a garage at which he was working, and had a collision with another car, damaging it to the extent of £ 24. Mr. J. L. Conlan said arrangements could be made to place accused in appropriate employment under proper supervision. Accused was admitted to probation for three years, special conditions being imposed, one of which was that he should make restitution of the £24. The magistrate, Mr. J. H. Luxford, severely admonished the youth, and warned him to make the best of the opportunity- now being given him to rehabilitate himself.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 374, 7 June 1928, Page 13
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202LURE OF CHOCOLATE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 374, 7 June 1928, Page 13
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