LAND AGENT SENT TO PRISON
FRAUDULENT CONVERSION
OF £987 (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, November 9. Cyril Hunter, aged 39, a land agent, was sentenced to 15 months’ imprisonment with hard labour by Mr W. H. Carson, S.M., in the Lower Hutt Magistrate’s Court today. He was charged with fraudulent conversion of money totalling £987 10s received by him in his capacity as a land agent. The Magistrate said that in view of the probation officer’s report and the nature of the charges it would be straining the act to the utmost to admit the accused to probation. The accused probably did not have the ability or training for the amount of accountancy work required of a land agent, said his counsel (Mr A. J. Mazengarb). He had never been in trouble before. He had served in the Navy from 1940 to 1947, and a former commanding officer spoke highly of him as a supply officer. Hunter, he submitted, was entitled to probation because of his previous record.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27193, 10 November 1953, Page 6
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