LODGE FUNDS.
DEFICIT EXCEEDS £IOOO,
THEFT ADMITTED BY SECRETARY
(Per Press Association). BLENHEIM, October 16. Defalcations exceeding £.IOOO of the funds of Court Clarendon. Foresters’ Lodge, Picton, resulted in the appearance at Picton this morning of Newton, Charles Murray Blizzard, a meraer, charged with theft. The accused pleaded guilty and was committed for sdntenee to the Supreme Court, Wellington, bail being allowed in two sureties of £250 each.
The charges disclosed that irregularities extended from August, 1935, to May, 1939. The accused, who was secretary of the. Lodge, confessed that he had insufficient experience for 1 the position. When his mercery business began to fail he borrowed Lodge funds. Subsequently lio transferred his business to Miramar, Wellington, but without suedess. He sold the stock hoping to repay the Lodge, but there was no surplus after meeting the accounts of the business.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 5, 17 October 1940, Page 3
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