POSTAL OFFICERS’ DOWNFALL
TWO YEARS’ PROBATION. A young postal official named Percy Reginald Sutherland came before Hie Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) on Saturday for sentence on a oharge of forgery and uttering, and was admitted to probation for Fvo years. Mr P. S. K. Macassey (Crown Prosecutor) remarked that the system of detection in the service must be particularly good. Hundreds of thousands of vouchers are passed for payment annually in the Post and Telegraph Department in, the disbursement of over three millions of money. This was the first occasion on which a fraud in this connection had been perpetrated, and even this one was detected.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11874, 7 July 1924, Page 7
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109POSTAL OFFICERS’ DOWNFALL New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11874, 7 July 1924, Page 7
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