THREE MONTHS’ GAOL.
ACCOUNTANT IN TROUBLE. Per. Press Associatio.v. HAMILTON, October 13. At the Police Court John Oheverton Kersey, a bankrupt accountant, formerly of Cambridge and Te Awamutu, was sentenced to three months’ ■ imprisonment for failing to keep proper hooks. The Magistrate said that it was not a case of an ignorant man. Bankrupt was an experienced accountant who must have known the necessity of keeping proper books. The Official Assignee was at a great disadvantage trying to adminster this estate, owing to the absence of proper books and the creditors must have been affected a good deal.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17170, 13 October 1923, Page 1
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