ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT. A- MISSING ACCOUNTANT.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 36, 11 August 1905, Page 5

ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT. A- MISSING ACCOUNTANT.

[BY TELEGHAPH. — PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, 10th August. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of P. Dawson, accountant to the Auckland Racing Club, on a charge of having appropriated a considerable sum of money, the property of his eninloyers. The warrant has been placed in the hands of .tho police for execution. Dawson .ha 6 not bean at the office since Wednesday. He is said to have remarked on that day that it was his intention to pay a visl. to Waiuku. It is believed he left for Fiji by the Taviuni on the same afternoon, and the authorities at Suvahave been communicated with .by cable. It is authoritatively announced twat considerably more than £1000 is missing from the club's banking account, ana that probably the amount will be found to ba close on twioa that sum. Auditors are, at work examining the accounts. At tho annual .meeting of members of the Racing Club, held on Monday afternoon, a statement of receipts and expenditure in connection with .the general account showed a balance in ths bank of close on £900. This on subsequent investigation, was found l<> be incorroot, and a deficiency was disclosed. This was discovered accidentally ' on W©dn?sday. One of the officials jocularly remarked to tho manager of .the banking institution with Which the club does business that the club would expeot interest on the sum standing to its credit. The manager, in reply;' informed the official ■that there was no balance in hand. This aroused the latter's suspicions «s ito the true position of affairs. On his return to the racing- club's office he is said to have epoken to the accountant of bia conversation with the bank manager, and to have suggested Mat tbe accounts should be gona into.