MISAPPROPRIATION OF TRUST FUNDS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3158, 9 August 1917, Page 4

MISAPPROPRIATION OF TRUST FUNDS

LAND AGENT IMPRISONED. By TelcEjapli—Press Association. Chrisbhurchi August S. William Warnock AUender, a bankrupt estate agent, appeared for sentence at the Polico Court to-day on two charges of failing to account for moneys collected by him for another. Counsel for prisoner said tho total deficiency was S&lti, of which £522 was trust money. Friends of bankrupt wero prepared to find £100. Tho' Magistrate said it was a case in Vhich a land agent had for two years been systematically living on trust funds. He sentenced Allender to one month's imprisonment on the first chargo and convicted and discharged him on the second. CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS

» WHAT THE BISHOP OF LONDON SAYS. The Bishop of London recently, at his annual visit to Queen's College, Harlcy ■Street, 6poko of the joy of battle. Hβ mentioned a letter he had received from a young airman at tho front, m which the writer remarked that if it were not for people being killed the campaign would be great fun. There was so much work to do that there was no time to be afraid, and.every day one was fighting for one's life. Twonty hoars later ho received a telegram stating that the Toung man had been shot down en miles 'over the German lines, but he wns tiiankful to eay he had got back again to his own lines. Continuing, the Bishop said he thought tho view of the conscientious objector was a mistaken one He believed that the whole idea of the small band-of conscientious objectors was v o had gone out simply from a sense of dulv. and wore using force ; as a preliminary to establishing, b belter world, weVe "just as m.ich ministers of God an any ministers of religion.