THE BAUME CASE.
POSTAL OFFICER'S APPEAL.
COURT ASKED TO ORDER HEARING.
[TBS PEBSS Spaelal Serrie*.]
WELLINGTON, July 27.
Legal papers in an action of unusual interest have just been filed in Wellington. These are for the Supreme Court to require the Post and Telegraph Appeal Board to hear the appeal of a Post Office Savings Bank officer who was disciplined in connexion with the Baume case last year. The officer Tn question was fined and punished for negligence in rendering possible the frauds whereby Sidney Erne Baume and an accomplice obtained a substantial sum of money from the Savings Bank, the theft being traced to them by accident. The grounds of the action are that the fault is that of others, or of the system, one cheque which was paid in by Baume's .accomplice, Smith, being accepted undated. The case wall be heard at an early date.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19064, 28 July 1927, Page 8
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