AN INEFFICIENT SECRETARY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20287, 21 December 1927, Page 13

AN INEFFICIENT SECRETARY.

BALL MONEY NOT ACCOUNTED FOE

(Special to Daily Times.) AUCKLAND, December 20,

It could hardly bo said in connection with the Taupiri bachelors’ ball, which was held during the winter, that James Reid, aged 27, “ was a most efficient secretary,” for h e tailed to account to tho committee for moneys totalling £4 11s 6d. After being arrested on charges of stealing this sum and of fraudulently omitting to account for it he appeared at the Police Court this morning, and pleaded guilty. Tho police stated that Reid when arrested was working on a farm at Morrinsville. After the ball had been held he was handed certain moneys, some ot which he accounted for. Afterwards ho left the district and could not be found, so other members of the Ball Committee had to make good th e money which was missing. Reid was a Canadian, and was a single man, who had been in the Dominion for the past nine years. Nothing previously was known against him. When asked by Mr W. R- M’Kean, S.M., why ho had failed to account for the money, Reid explained that it was through sheer carelessness. Accused was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon within 12 months, provided he refunded within three months tho money stolen.