BANK CLERK'S THEFTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20710, 1 November 1930, Page 15

BANK CLERK'S THEFTS.

GAMBLING ON HORSES

REFORMATIVE TERM ORDERED

[BY TELEGRATH. —PKESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHUHCH, Friday. Embarrassed as the result of extensive gambling en horse-racing, Frederick George Findlay McKay, formerly a clerk employed by the Bank of New South Wales, stole £3OO from the Greymouth branch of the bank, and subsequently committed a further theft of £29 from the bank at Christchurch. McKay appeared in the Supreme Court to-day before the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, who sentenced him to reformative treatment for 12 months. In sentencing McKay, the Chief Justice said: " I recognise that in cases like this the very fact that a mail of McKay's position finds himself before the Court is a severe punishment in itself. The resulting degradation and loss of position is serious, but the Courts have to take into consideration something more than merely punishing an individual. They have to consider what will act as a deterrent to other persons. You chose to take up gambling, got into debt and committed a breach of trust by stealing from your employers, and you must pay the penalty."