SUPREME COURT.
THEFT OF GOVERNMENT MONEY i __ Per Press Association. Wellington, August 17. At the Supreme Court. Herbert Raton Radcliffe, recently chief clerk in the Mines Departmoat, '.vr.s retried ou charges of stsahr.g Albil and £35, the propr 4y of the Government. The jury found prisoner guilty, aim added the following rider: “We recommend the attention of the 1 üblk Service Commissioner being drawn to the need for better safeguards in dealing with public money. (1) by requiring payees to write the amounts in words when requiring receipts, (3) by making a regulation to the effect that certifying officers cannot operate on either imprest accounts or deposit accounts without the counter-signature of another responsible officer. Radcliffe was sentenced to nine months with hard labour.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 21, 18 August 1917, Page 5
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