SUPREME COURT THEFT AS SERVANT
Remand For Sentence Pleading guilty on indictment in the Supreme Court yesterday on nine charges of theft as a servant of the North Canterbury Catchment Board, and five charges of false accounting, Douglas James MacDonald, aged 42, a former assistant secretary of the board (Mr P. G. S. Penlington), was remanded by Mr Justice Macarthur for sentence on April 9. MacDonald was committed in January for trial ifl the Supreme Court on seven charges of theft as a servant, nine of fraud, and one of forgery, having pleaded not guilty, but yesterday pleaded guilty on an amended indictment.
This charged him with nine counts of theft as a servant of the Catchment Board between December 15, 1967, and February 5, 1969, involving sums of money totalling $93.51: with four counts of making false entries in the board’s cash book within the same period; and with one count of omitting to record particulars of expenditure, with intent to defraud the board.
His Honour, on Mr Penlington’s application, granted MacDonald bail pending sentence.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32265, 7 April 1970, Page 10
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