YOUNG POSTMISTRESS FAILS TO ACCOUNT FOR SUM OF £259
(P.A.) ROTORUA, Sept. 30. How an 18-year-old postmistress at Whakarcwarewa made weekly defalcations totalling £259 which pased unnoticed by her head office for three months was told in the Magistrates’ Court yesterday morning when Rangi Manahi appeared on a charge that, while a servant of the Post and Telegraph Department, she stole that sum. Senior-Detective White said that Manahi had admitted taking the money in sums ranging from £lO to 2s 6d. She had no personal effects to show for it and was quite incapable of accounting for it. Manahi pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court, Auckland for sentence. Bail was allowed.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22757, 1 October 1948, Page 3
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114YOUNG POSTMISTRESS FAILS TO ACCOUNT FOR SUM OF £259 Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22757, 1 October 1948, Page 3
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