LODGE FUNDS STOLEN
One Month’s Imprisonment OFFENCE BY SECRETARY Dominion Special Service. Auckland, Nov. 11. The theft of £l6/17/- and £l3/3/8, the property of the Kia Ora Lodge of tbe New Zealand Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes, was admitted by Patrick Ouithbert Kearney in the Police Court before Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M. Detective-Sergeant Kelly said accused bad been secretary of the lodge, and bad bad charge of tbe funds for several months in 1931. In June of that year be submitted a balance-sheet showing that £l6 had not been paid into the bank as required. Later there had been an investigation, and a shortage of £3O had been disclosed. Accused was at present out of work. Accused said he had made no attempt to hide the shortage. He had intended ro pay tbe money back. The magistrate said many people bad commenced careers of dishonesty by “borrowing” money in their charge. Accused was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 43, 14 November 1932, Page 11
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159LODGE FUNDS STOLEN Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 43, 14 November 1932, Page 11
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