TWENTY CHARGED
THEFTS FROM EMPLOYERS MAGISTRATE GIVES WARNING (By Telegraph.—Press Association) AUCKLAND, Friday A warning that if similar cases continued to come before him of thefts by employees the penalty would be imprisonment, was given by Mr J. Morling, S.M., when nineteen men and one girl, employees of Reid (New Zealand) Rubber Mills, Limited, pleaded guilty of the theft of goods from the firm. The smallest individual amount involved was 3s and the largest £9 ss, the goods comprising cycle tyres, hot water bottles, rubber mats, tennis balls and rubber plugs. The police said that for the past three months a constable had been specially detailed to catch offenders. The magistrate fined all but two of defendants (the girl and a youth aged 17), £lO each.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21176, 27 July 1940, Page 3
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126TWENTY CHARGED Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21176, 27 July 1940, Page 3
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