DISHONEST CLERK.

Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18164, 31 October 1930, Page 7

DISHONEST CLERK.

THEFTB FROM BANK. GAMBLING THE CAUSE. -CHIEF JUSTICE’S COMMENTS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. Embarrassed as a result oi extensive gambling on horse-racing Frederick George Findlay McKay, a clerk employed by the Bank of New South Wales, stole £3OO from the Greymouth branch of the hank, and subsequently committed a further theft of £29 from the bank at Christchurch, x (McKay appeared to-day, at the Supreme Court, before .the Chief Justice. On each charge he was sentenced to reformative treatment for twelve mqnths, the sentences to he concurrent. In sentencing McKay the Chief Justice said: “I recognise that in cases like this the very fact'that a man of McKay’s position finds himself before the Court is a severe punishment in itself. The resulting degradation and loss of position is serious, but the courts have to take into consideration something more than merely punishing the individual; they have to consider what will act as a deterrent to other persons. You choose to take up gambling, got into debt, and committed a breach of trust by stealing from your employers, and you must pay the penalty.”