R.S.A. FUNDS STOLEN
FORMER SECRETARY SENTENCED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, December 9. Temptation had been put in the prisoner's way through the unsatisfactory manner in which the books of the Hutt Valley Returned Services’ Association had been kept, said counsel in the Supreme Court to-day on behalf of Jack Raymond Kirkpatrick, aged 37, a clerk, who had been secretary of the association, and who had pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to three charges of theft of the association’s funds. Counsel said there had been no check on the funds Which the prisoner had handled, and he misappropriated funds to meet gambling debts. Mr Justice Gresson said he could not regard the offences as otherwise than serious. The prisu< er’s salary had been more than adequate to meet his ordinary commitments, but he had deliberately begun to steal funds after little more than a year in the job. His Honour sentenced the prisoner to one year's reformative detention on the charge of stealing £585 and convicted and discharged him on the other two charges.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25363, 10 December 1947, Page 8
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