FORGERY AND UTTERING.
« POSTAL OFFICER'S LAPSE. TWO YEARS' PROBATION. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. A young postal officer, Percy Reginald Sutherland, in the Supreme Court to-day was admitted to probation for two years on a charge of forgery and uttering. The Crown Prosecutor remarked that the system of detection in the service must be particularly good. Hundreds of thousands of vouchers were passed for payment annually in the Post and Telegraph Department in the disbursement of over three millions of money, and this was the first occasion on which a fraud in this connection had been perpetrated, and this one was detected. Sir Robert Stout said this was another case in which prisoner had failed through drink and gambling. Prisoner was apparently industrious, but temptation had been too strong for his power of resistance. It appeared to be a case where probation could be granted.
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Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 158, 5 July 1924, Page 5
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