LAMENTABLE SLIP
THEFT FROM RELIEF FUNDS. (Per United Press Association.) Christchurch, May 11. A man who for over 40 years had an honourable record as a schoolmaster, who is a Justice of the Peace, and has been a Dominion representative for his Church, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to a charge of theft of 9/3 from the Mayor’s Relief of Distress Fund on March 31. The accused was Johann Voss, aged 66, a retired schoolmaster of Spreydon. Mr Mosely, S.M., convicted and discharged the accused, who on the Magistrate’s suggestion agreed to contribute £5 to the Mayor’s Coal and Blanket Fund. The Magistrate said this lamentable slip was due to something that might be called premature senility. Accused had been employed in checking the collectors’ boxes on the day of the Mayor’s relief appeal, and it was noticed he was acting in a suspicious manner.
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Southland Times, Issue 22013, 12 May 1933, Page 7
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146LAMENTABLE SLIP Southland Times, Issue 22013, 12 May 1933, Page 7
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