RESPECT FOR PROPERTY
MAGISTRATE’S OBSERVATIONS. FOUR YOUNG MEN ADMITTED TO PROBATION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. “I think it is a great pity that you young men should come before the Court for this sort of thing,” said Mr Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, yesterday, to four defendants who had admitted charges of theft. “You are quite old enough to know the difference between honesty and dishonesty and the difference between other people's property and your own. “At the present time there is a good deal of propaganda going around which urges people to think that they should not respect other people's property. You will find, as you grow older, that that propaganda is all wrong, and that if you wish to do anything good in this world, you should respect other people’s property and respect the difference between right and wrong and honesty and dishonesty." Accused were all young men on the threshold of life, said the magistrate, and he would accordingly admit them to 12 months' probation and suppress their names.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 November 1940, Page 3
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