AGENT FOR SENTENCE.
CASH NOT ACCOUNTED 1 TOR. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. In the Wellington Police Court to-day Thomas James Balfour Mason, aged 42, was committed to tho Supreme Court for sentence for failing to account for £S6 to the Wellington Gas Company. The evidence showed that accused was a collecting agent, and in a letter read in Court he said he had been conducting another business in which he had to pay out a lot of small sums. Unfortunately he got the money mixed. He suggested making payment to the company at the rate of £5 a month, offered security, and said he would carry on the collecting agency with no charge to the company. C To a police question the company's accountant said Mason had told him he had been talcing "doubles" and had been "struck" twice.
Bail of £100 was allowed,
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 50, 28 February 1935, Page 17
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145AGENT FOR SENTENCE. Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 50, 28 February 1935, Page 17
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