FAILURE TO ACCOUNT.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20420, 15 December 1931, Page 15

FAILURE TO ACCOUNT.

EX-SOLICITOR'S OFFENCES. (IRBSS , ASSOCIATION TKUOBAH.) AUCKLAND, Dfecember 14. A former Auckland solicitor, Percival John Scantlebury, . aged 46, was charged in the, Magistrate's Court with fraudulently omitting to account for or pay to the Superintendent of the State Advances Department, Wellington, £609 17s received from Walter Glasgow of Te Atatu. It was further alleged in three additional charges that accused fraudulently omitted to account for other sums of money, amounting to £.306, entrusted to him by clients. . Detective-Sergeant Bickerdike . sam that on December 2nd he interviewed accused, who made a written statement admitting the offences., V n December 10th accused, whose affairs wer© ill the bands of tho Official Assignee, Auckland, told witness that lie had book debts amounting to which were estimated to produce £2oo. If these debts were realised, said witness, the deficiency would be reduced accordingly. Accused had given the rx>lice every assistance. Mr- F. K. Hunt, S.M., committed accused,- who pleaded guilty, to the Supremo Court for sentence. In July last accused was convicted on charges of making a false audit certificate and a false statutory declaration in respect of his trust account an with causing the Crown Law Office, Wellington, to act upon, these documents as if they were genume. Ho was sentenced to be detained for re l® matiyo purposes for o period not ceedfng three years.

Much interest is being taken in the young pheasants, of which-there are now three hatches, under the care of Mr H. Dawber, Oufuhin. On Sunday last motorists from the City and even further away paid visits throughout the day. Mr Dawber is confident that the experiment' will prove successful, and that, an even greater . proportion of pheasant chicks will survive in future hatches. The experience gained regarding humidity, temperature, etc., during hatching, and the results of various feed tests, all make the futuro activities less hazardous. The earliest chicks are feathering well, while the bahy chicks from the most recent incubation are considered the most lively so far. If the chicks show signs of torpidity, chopped green onions have a remarkable tonic effect. Pheasant chicks, unlike domestic chickens, do not scratch for feed, but burrow deeply with their bills. Anticipating that supplies at the -Relief Association's depot will be short at the end of this month and tlio beginning of next month, Mr Harper, speaking at yesterday's meeting or the Christchurch Unemployment Committee, made a strong appeal for assistance to tide over that period, and expressed the hope that the Mayor would be able to increase his contribution from his Belief of Distress Fund. The Association was still being supplied with lueat by the Government, he said, but it to pav freight, which came to a considerable nmoiint. lie thought that the Government might fairly bo asked to let them have th.e meat lree of frelJit. He also thought that tho telephone-lor the depot should be free. Or Aiimc L Fraer urged that the telephone in con nexion with the Women's Unemployment Committee's headquarters aso should be free. It was decided to wnte to the Prime Minister, Mr Forbes, and ask that the telephone remitted, and that the -Relief AsßOcia [ion should pay half freight only on the meat,