LODGE FUNDS
THEFTS BY SECRETARY COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE (Per United Press Association) BLENHEIM, Oct. 16. Defalcations exceeding £IOOO in the funds of the Court Clarendon Foresters’ Lodge at Picton. resulted in the appearance in the Picton Court this morning of Newton Charles Murray Blizzard Mercer, charged with the theft. The accused pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court in Wellington for sentence. Bail was allowed. The charges disclosed that the irregularities extended from August 1935, to May. 1939. The accused, who was secretary of the lodge, confessed that he had , insufficient experience for the position. When his mercery business began to fail he borrowed lodge funds. Subsequently he transferred his business to Miramar. Wellington, but without success. He sold his stock hoping to repay the lodge deficiencies, but there was no surplus after meeting the accounts of the business.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24431, 17 October 1940, Page 2
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