OFFICER'S DEFALCATIONS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11716, 5 June 1916, Page 6

OFFICER'S DEFALCATIONS.

A CAPTAIN IN COURT. [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND. Juno o. kt the Supreme Court, Cecil Lyttelton Hawkins, formerly adjutant to the 3rd Auckland Raiment, subsequently an officer in the Expeditionary tore©, and latterlv assistant quartcrmastcrKeneral at'Dunedin, came up for sentence on eleven charges of theft and one c.har-e of forgery and uttering, c> - Wees to which accused had pleaded fruiltv in tiie Lower Court. *•' The offences took place, while Hawkins, then a captain, was administering So regimental fund, in Auckland, between "mi 3 and V.UI. . Mr Cooper said that the moivv misappropriator! amounted to a ro nsi(W»Wo sum. and emended me, so lon- a p..Tiod that n n-as impossible to iho First Offenders Act. hut ,1,1,.;, -ore -pe<- ; a! r-ir<.|ini>tance> which Uitiul l,ini in treating il.* matter m i social way, subject to certain conditions, the fir<* hcine that ahsnlu "viVmnpletP restitution must be made. y„r a ooiisid-ral.le tune pnsnner s m;iul bad been affected by domestic trouble. „'hich io >ome ,->: ten- had b.vn v.<sp»r.sihlo for his i.iianeial im.ddie. lli> Honor ordered tweused to conic up lo' " l°m-o when called upon. Hi* eharand ..he fv,d le<-n a. irood officer. Hi, Honor LnM that he'understood that ; J, prepared to serve his eountrv and [ho nlipht be -von an c rendering service

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