DISHONESTY ADMITTED
SECRETARY OF TIMBER COMPANY REMANDED FOR SENTENCE. (Special to "Northern Advocate.”) AUCKLAND, Thursday. William Henry Pollock, aged 53, pleaded guilty today to charges of stealing £561 from the timber company which employed .him as secretary. He was remanded for sentence. In a statement to the police, Pollock said that after coming from Wellington he had to abandon a house he had been buying there, and he lost an equity of about £6OO. In Auckland he found biraself in difficulties, and after March, 1931, took small sums, most of which he gambled away. The position got gradually worse, and he began betting in bigget sums, but only got more deeply involved.
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Northern Advocate, 14 July 1933, Page 3
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