COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE.
Per Press Association. ROTORUA, March 14. Pleading guilty to a charge of failure to account for the sum of £lO4 16s 7d, the property of a Government department, a young man was committed for sentence at the Supreme Court at Auckland by Justices of the Peace at the ltotorua Court this morning. On the application of counsel an order was made suppressing accused’s name and bail was granted in his own recognisance and two sureties of £SO. In evidence, the officer in charge of the department stated that accused was a good officer at his particular work, but had been reprimanded for slackness in his bookkeeping methods, wliich might have accounted for the loss of the money. On the deficiency being discovered, accused admitted the offence. Detective White produced a statement made by accused admitting misappropriation of the cash and said enquiries made showed accused to be considered of good character in the toivn.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 89, 14 March 1934, Page 8
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157COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 89, 14 March 1934, Page 8
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