WOOL PRICES.
Rise Maintained on Buoyant Market. ACTIVE COMPETITION. (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, September 21. At the wool sales 11,806 bales, including 56G0 from New Zealand, were offered and approximately 9815 were sold. It was a buoyant market with active Home and Continental competition. The opening prices were fully maintained. New Zealand greasy cross,bred, OEB, fetched 9d to 7£d, scoured and combing, Brooksdale Hid to 161 d. ALLEGED FRAUD. Suva Treasury Official Faces 27 Charges. £700 INVOLVED. (Received 10 a.m.) SUVA, this day. Following the investigation of a special committee regarding an alleged robbery from the Treasury safe at Suva of £700, which-caused a sensation in Fiji in March last, Hugh Neville Reay, 30, a second class clerk at the Treasury, appeared at the Police . Court on 27 charges of alleged fraudulent application of moneys received by him in his Department; alleged falsification of the Department cash books, and alleged destruction of the rough cash book. Hewas remanded, bail being allowed.
Reay was cashier at the Treasury for the last two years.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 225, 22 September 1932, Page 7
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