THEFTS FROM TREASURY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 140, 16 June 1932, Page 12

THEFTS FROM TREASURY

TWO CASES IN FIJI. NATIVE YOUTH IMPRISONED. SUVA, June 1. Considerable public interest was aroused recently by the reported thef t ' of £4OO and £7OO from the Treasury offices at Ba and Suva respectively. | Up to the present there has been no . trace of the money said to have been j taken from a safe at the I reasury ->f ' flee in Suva, but an arrest has been \ made at Ba and a portion of the* money | recovered. At a sitting of the Circuit Court at. Lautoka this week, a Fijian youth. Tulsi, was found guilty of the larceny I of £419 6h from tho Treasury Office at I Ba. It was stated that the sum of £2ll had been recovered. The youth | was sentenced to nine months' impri- I sonment. Ramdulari, an Indian woman r was charged with receiving the above | amount and was also sentenced to nine i months’ imprisonment. It was stated that the money was found under the woman’s house. She claimed that this I represented her life’s savings, a story which was largely discountenanced by | the fact that the notes were praeti I eally all of very recent date. Tnquiriein regard to the SuVa rubbery i- I si ill proceeding.