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EX-SOLDIER’S THEFTS HOSPITAL BOARD FUNDS (P.A.) AUCKLAND. Dec. 4. On 15 charges of theft of hospital board moneys, totalling £559, Angus Campbell MacMiirray, aged 48 years, was sentenced, by Mr. Justice Callan to 12 months’ reformative detention. Mac Murray had gone overseas in 1940 and was invalided back last year and then got work as a commercial traveller and-later with the Kawakawa Hospital Board. While employed by the board he committed .the thefts of its moneys. ; His Honour 1 said the embezzlements had taken place' in six months and 10 days. It was difficult to believe that the money had all gone in drink because a man would have to entertain lavishly to spend £IOOO a year on liquor. The prisoner’s good war record in. this.and the last war had been taken into account.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20958, 4 December 1942, Page 4
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137GAOL TERM IMPOSED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20958, 4 December 1942, Page 4
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