THEFT OF GOODS
FROM STATE HOUSES. PLASTERERS SENTENCED. AUCKLAND, April 8. Two plasterers, Arthur Edward Hart, aged 25, and Harold Martin, aged 33, admitted in the Magistrates’ Court the theft of two copper floats, one tap and one brass stopcock arm while working on the State housing scheme at Orakei on January 10. Martin also pleaded guilty to the theft of a hand-saw while working on the Casy Estate scheme, Ponsonby, on about March 29. "We have had a lot of these thefts from houses which are in course of erection,” said Detective-Sergeant Nalder.
The Magistrate, Mr C. R. OrrWalker, S.M.: There was nothing much to gain by taking these things, although they have a certain value. One cannot look on it as trivial by any means to take tools and fittings from buildings in the course of erection. It is so easily done. Martin was admitted to probation for six months, and Hart, who. the magistrate said, was apparently not the principal offender, was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six months.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 April 1938, Page 7
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