A COLLECTOR’S SLIP
PROBATION GRANTED. £ per Press Association. Copyright .] AUCKLAND, This Day. Imprisoned since New Year’s Eve, when he gave himself up at the Newton Police Station, Joseph S. Daniels, aged 45, a labourer, was admitted to probation by Mr Orr-Walker, S.M., this morning, after pleading guilty to a charge of fraudulently omitting to account to the Auckland Farmers’ Freezing Company Employees’ Union for £l3. The police said that Daniels, in a statement, said he was a collector of the butchers and labourers’ fees at Southdown, and lost £5 out of his pocket while he was drinking. In an endeavour to recover the money, he invested £5 on the horse Gay Seton at the Auckland races, but the horse lost. He could not sleep, so he surrendered himself to the police. The magistrate ordered accused to make restitution by instalments. Daniels is to take out a prohibition order, and refrain from betting on horse races.
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Northern Advocate, 6 January 1937, Page 6
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