THEFT OF LODGE FUNDS
FORMER SECRETARY REMANDED FOR SENTENCE (United Press Association) DUNEDIN, October 27. The trial was concluded today of Ray Drummond Bachop, former secretary of Triumph Lodge No. 9, Protestant Alliance Friendly Society of Australasia, on fifteen charges involving the theft of funds belonging to the lodge and falsification of balance-sheets before Mr Justice Kennedy in the Supreme Court. Eight of the counts were about embezzlement between June 1935 and March 1937 of a total sum of £lB4 15/2. The remaining seven cover’ the making of false entries in balance-sheets. Accused was found guilty on all counts and was remanded for sentence on Friday.
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Southland Times, Issue 23342, 28 October 1937, Page 13
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