CLERKS CHARGED.
THEFT IN NEW ZEALAND. SYDNEY, Novembc 3. Terence Nixon, aged 22, and Cyril Hankins, aged 25, clerks,- were pharged in the Sydney Police Court to-day with stealing £795, the property of the New Zealand Government. Accused were ordered to be returned to the Dominion in the custody of Detective Hamilton.
The theft referred to is alleged to have been committed by a former employee in the Auckland office of the Labour Department. Just before the Christmas vacation last year the official in question is said to-have received'from a higher officer two blank cheques already signed, which' he had to fill in later in order to make certain small payments. It is alleged that he filled in these two cheques and cashed them at a city bank. The official under suspicion did not report for duty after the holidays, and only then I was it discovered that an unauthorised sum had been drawn from the account. The Sydney police received a provisional warrant for the arrest of two New Zealanders, and on October 20, detained one man in a Darlinghurst flat, and a second man on Circular Quay.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 261, 4 November 1933, Page 9
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