NOT GUILTY
OVERSEER'S NAME CLEARED.
<BI TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) HAMILTON," 3rd March. • George King, a former overseer for the Public Works Department in the King Country, appeared at the Supreme Court on five charges of forging vouchers totalling £131 10s Bd, and three charges of stealing money totalling £315 while employed as an officer 'of the Government. Evidence was given that the rouchers and wages sheets purported to be signed by workers who- denied having signed them. Counsel for the defenoe said the contract was let to one Hill, who turned the work over to another man named Higgins. Prisoner sent in a voucher for the first progress payment, and when about to pay over the money, learned that Higsrjns had taken over the work. ' He met Hill, and told him that as he had thrown tip-'the job and the contract had been entered in his (Hill's) name, he had better give prisoner written authority to sign his name to the vouchers in order to avoid confusion. The authority had unfortunately been lost; in the other cases prisoner had simply transferred money from one job and paid it out on another.
His Honour summed up • in TJriioner's favour, and the jury. returned "a verdict of not guilty.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 54, 5 March 1923, Page 5
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206NOT GUILTY Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 54, 5 March 1923, Page 5
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