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Another Meningitis Case A twelve-year-old Maori boy has been admitted to the Kawakawa hospital suffering from meningitis. This child comes from Kawhiti, living near to where the two patients who were taken to hospital earlier in the week, have their homes. This case brings the number of cases in the Bay of Islands district this week to three, Effter over a month of freedom from the disease. *■<>** Misapplication Of Funds “This is a case of misapplication rather than of extra embezzlement, and, for that reason, I will relax a rule of the Court concerning employees of local bodies and refrain from imposing a prison sentence,” said Mr. Justice Northcroft, to Colin Stewart, who appeared for sentence on a charge of theft while employed as clerk of the Akaroa County Council. “Yours is s difficult case because it is a rule of the courts that those who embezzle local body funds must be imprisoned, and I am reluctant to depart from this rule,” said the judge in admitting Stewart to probation.
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Northern Advocate, 17 November 1941, Page 4
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