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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11390, 17 May 1915, Page 5

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EMBEZZLEMENT CASES., iPe.i Pkkss Associ.mox.J WELLINGTON, May 1?. Ernest Alfred Welch, who had. pleaded guilty to thefts of Native Land moneys and also had been convicted of intending th.e theft of a. cheque for £'7P(X came up for sentence to-day. Counsel stared that prisoner had been thirty-two years in the. Government employ. lie worked his way to a prominent position, and then gave vr%y to drink. in the iirst place he took the money to help hi- friends, backing bill* rietht and lea for almost anyonw vho asked him. Then when default was made on the bills, he took money iYo:u the Native Department to meet ihe demands. .Mr .1 ust-ice Hosking sentenced pri» -i-n.-r to tv o years' hard labour. Barclay "Hector, formerly registrar of the Nov.- Zealand University, who had iileaded guilty to three charges of theft, also came up _for sentence. Amuse! siiid that some time ago prisoner reuk a sum of money from the l*ni verity funds uiih the intention of tvpaying it. He was uuaHe to do -e a;ai some of the thefts were really :.ook manipulations. Prisoner would -epay the money taken. Hi.-. Honor said that this was not a matter which could weigh in the imof sentence. He sentenced prisoner to two years' with hard labour.