HOSPITAL FUNDS STOLEN
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, Dec. 3, On 15 charges of the theft of Hospital Board moneys totalling £559, Angus Campbell Macmurray, aged 48, was to-day sentenced by Mr Justice Callan to 12 months' reformative detention. Macmurray had gone overseas in 1940 and was invalided back last year. He then obtained work as a commercial traveller and later with the Kawakawa Hospital Board. While employed by the board, he committed thefts of its moneys. His Honor said the embezzlements had taken place in a period of six months and ten days. It was difficult to believe that the money had all gone in drink, because a man would have to entertain lavishly to spend £IOOO a year on liquor. The accused had a good war record in this and the last war, and he had taken that into account.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25090, 4 December 1942, Page 4
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