“MUST PAY THE PENALTY”

Taranaki Daily News, 1 November 1930, Page 7

“MUST PAY THE PENALTY”

BANK CLERK STEALS £329.

TWELVE MONTHS’ REFORMATIVE.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Oct. 31.

Embarrassed as the result of extensive gambling on horse racing, Frederick George Findlay McKay, a clerk employed by the Bank of New South Wales, stole £3OO from the Greymouth branch of the bank and subsequently committed a further theft of £29 from the bank at Christchurch. McKay appeared to-day at the Supreme Court before the Chief Justice. On each' charge he was sentenced to reformative treatment for 12 months, the sentences to be concurrent. . - T In sentencing McKay the Chief Justice said: “I recognise that in cases like this the very fact that a . man of McKay’s position finds himself before the Court is a severe punishment in itself. The-resulting degradation and loss of position is serious, but the'-Courts have to take into consideration something more than merely punishing the individual; they have to consider wTw.t will act as a deterrent to the other persons. You chose to take up gambling, o'ot into debt, and committed a breach of trust by stealing from your employers, and you must, pay, the penalty.”