MISAPPROPRIATION OF FUNDS
' ACCUSED COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE (Pee United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, April I. By an involved system of manipulating the books over a period of three years Albert Kellaway, an accountant, turned the sum of £ll2O belonging to his employers, the Australian Mutual Provident Society, to his own use. Kellaway, who pleaded guilty to a charge of theft before Mr E. Page, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court to-day, was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. The afccused said in a statement to the police that he had been in the employ of the society for the past 21 years. In 1921 he got into financial difficulties, and was threatened by a moneylender with bankruptcy unless he could find the money. Bail was refused.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21300, 2 April 1931, Page 6
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