JAIL FOR FRAUDULENT ACCOUNTING
Director Of Auctioneering Company Dominion Special Service. PALMERSTON N„ July 26. Found guilty by a jury last week on charges of fraudulent accounting under the Auctioneers Act and of one charge of theft of money, John Richards, aged 55, managing director of the Dominion Auctioneering Company, Palmerston North, was today sentenced by Mr. Justice Blair to six months' imprisonment. Arthur Haines, aged 35, an employee of the firm, who was convicted on the same charges, was admitted to probation for three years and was ordered to pay £3B, half the costs of the prosecution.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 256, 27 July 1939, Page 13
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