FAILING TO ACCOUNT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 82, 5 March 1938, Page 2

FAILING TO ACCOUNT.

SALEMAN’S OFFENCE. Per- Press Association. DUNEDIN, March 4. In tho Police Court George Thompson. a salesman employed by a firm dealing photographic enlargements, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment on two charges of receiving £4B on terms requiring him to pay the same to liis employers, Diamond and Hart, and the theft of £ls, tho property of the same firm. The sentences will be concurrent. Chief-Detectivo Young said accused was employed on a commission basis, receiving . 16s for booked orders and the same amount for cash collections. He was supplied with a car and failed to account for both sums. Accused could not be located, though the car was found in Christchurch in January. Thompson was arrested in Auckland under an assumed name and sentenced for tho' unlawful conversion of the car.

Counsel for accused said the extent of this photographic business could be gauged when in one district there were several photographic salesmen with cars.

The Magistrate: Were they all dealing in photographic enlargements? Counsel: Yes. The Magistrate: There are a lot of fools in the world.

Counsel said accused informed him there was a profit of anything up to 400 per cent or 500 per cent on the sale of these photographs.