LAZY POSTMEN FINED
LETTERS NOT DELIVERED “A POSITION OF TRUST” Press A ssocia/ion CHRISTCHURCH, To-day. In the Magistrate's Court at Christchurch to-day two postmen, Isaac Cecil Ward, aged 30. and William Charles Rattray, aged 28, pleaded guilty to charges of detaining postal packets. The police stated that after the rounds had been completed the bags of the two accused were searched and found to contain packets which should have been delivered weeks earlier. Dishonesty was not suggested, but downright laziness. Th magistrate fined each man i. 3. in default one month’s imprisonment, saying: ‘‘These men are Government servants in a position of trust. If a man is not prepared to honour that trust, let him get out.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 580, 5 February 1929, Page 1
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117LAZY POSTMEN FINED Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 580, 5 February 1929, Page 1
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