BACHELORS' BALL

Wairarapa Daily Times, 21 December 1927, Page 5

BACHELORS' BALL

SEQUEL IN COURT. SECRETARY ADMITS THEFT. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Tuesday. As a sequel to a bachelors’- ball which was held at Taupaki during last winter. the secretary, James Reid, aged 27, appeared in the -Magistrate’s Court to-day on charges of stealing £4 11s 6d, and of fradulontly omitting to account for same. He pleaded guilty. The police stated that Reid, when arrested, was working -on a farm at Alorrinsvillc. After the ball had been held, he was handed certain moneys, some of which he accounted for. Afterwards he left the district and could not be found, so other members of the ball committee had to make good the money which was missing. Reid was a Canadian and a single man, who had been in the Dominion for the past nine years. Nothing previously was known against him. When asked by Mr AL-Kean, S.AL, why he failed to account for the money, Reid explained that it was through sheer carelessness. Accused was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon within 12 months, provided he refunds within three months the-money stolen.