FALSE DECLARATION.
EX-SOLICITOR. PLEADS GUILTY. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, July 2. Percival John Scantlebury, aged 46. formerly a barrister and solicitor, pleaded guilty to a charge of making a false statutory declaration in respect of a trust account and to a similar charge of making a false audit certificate, and to two charges of uttering these documents to tiie Crown Law Office.
In a statement accused said that in 1930 owing to illness he allowed his books to get behind. Pressed by the Crown Law Office for the certificate, he had adopted tho course of preparing and signing the certificate and verifying the declaration, which lie forwarded in the liopo of getting time to bring his books up to date. Accused was committed for sentence, bail of £IOOO being allowed.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 180, 2 July 1931, Page 2
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130FALSE DECLARATION. Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 180, 2 July 1931, Page 2
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