County Clerk Admits Failure To Account for £338
Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 6. Failure to account for sums received by him as clerk of the Akaroa County totalling £338 4s 4d was admitted by Colin Stewart in the Magistrate’s Court. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. A statement by Stewart was produced by the police. In it Stewart said he was a married man 62 years of age and had been county clerk for 15 years. About three years ago he became pressed for money through illness in his family and speculations and for tho last three years he had been covering up shortages in the books. Since the audit he had arranged for the sum of £337 to be paid in to the council. Bail was renewed in a sum of £2OO with one surety of £2OO.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 265, 7 November 1941, Page 5
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142County Clerk Admits Failure To Account for £338 Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 265, 7 November 1941, Page 5
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