SHOP-LIFTING.
A SALUTARY I.KSSON. l'er Press Association. Auckland, January 9. In passing sentence to-day on four young married women, who had pleaded guilty to shoplifting, Mr Kettle, M.M., said lie thought there was no doubt that the nlVemv was one which was very common, not only in Auckland, but in other places. He wns quite certain that it was the desire and love of dress and show—one of the things which had become almost a curse in our excessive civilisation—and the desire of people to vie with their neighbours at various public gatherings, which induced them to go into shops and be tmuntcd to steal things which they could not afford. They allowed the desire to be well dressed to carry them beyond all sense of moral obligation. If the offence was repeated, and people eamo 'before him on charges of systematic shop-lifting, he would be driven to send offenders to prison. In the present instance, however, he would not send th«m -to gaol, although they richly de**rved it. Each defendant was fined £lO.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81916, 10 January 1907, Page 2
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174SHOP-LIFTING. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81916, 10 January 1907, Page 2
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