THEFT OF £5979 ADMITTED
* HOSPITAL BOARD SECRETARY CHARGED (P.A.) WHANGAREI, Nov. 21. Thefts totalling £5979 from the Bay of Island Hospital Board were admitted by Angus Campbell Macmurray, secretary, at Kawakawa. Fifteen charges were involved. The board chairman said irregularities regarding the banking of the medical superintendent’s salary led to the discovery of shortages, for which Macmurray admitted full . responsibility. They included shortages in a special Christmas comforts fund and £SO belonging to a patient who died. Macmurray’s salary was £350, with a free house. Macmurray said he served in the last war with a Highland regiment. He was invalided home from Egypt in 1940. All the money had been spent on beer, drinking possibly being due to domestic trouble or nervous condition. He had no means of making restitution. The police stated that Macmurray was very anxious to clear up the matter. He was committed for sentence to the Supreme Court.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23802, 23 November 1942, Page 6
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