FAILURE TO ACCOUNT
COLLECTOR’S OFFENCE. REPAYMENT SUGGESTED. 'By Telegraph—Press Association.) Feb. 27. Thomas James Balfour Mason, aged 42, accountant, was to-day committed for sentence for failing to account for about £B6 to the Wellington Gas Company. , Evidence showed that he was a collecting agent and in a letter read in court he said that he had been running another business in which he had to pay out a lot of small sums and got the money mixed. He suggested repaying at £5 a month and offered security. Ho said he would carry on the agency with, no charge to the company. To a police question the company’s accountant said that Mason had told him he had been taking doubles and had been “ struck” twice. Bail was allowed at £IOO.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 28 February 1935, Page 4
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129FAILURE TO ACCOUNT Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 28 February 1935, Page 4
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