PROBATION GRANTED
THEFT FROM LOCAL BODY. CIRCUMSTANCES REGARDED AS UNUSUAL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. ' “This is a case of misapplication rather than of embezzlement, and for that reason I will rflax the rule of the Courts concerning employees of local bodies, and refrain from imposing a prison sentence,” said Mr Justice Northcroft, in the Supreme Court this morning, to Colin Stewart, who appeared for sentence on a charge of theft as Clerk of the Akaroa County Council.
I “Yours is a difficult case, because it is a rule of the Courts that those who embezzle local body funds must be imprisoned, and I am reluctant to depart from this rule,” said the judge, in admitting Stewart to probation.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 November 1941, Page 6
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