CLERK'S PECULATIONS
I EMPLOYEE OF STATE SALUTARY PUNISHMENT. WA V JAM:i. Wednesday For tlipfl at Dannevirke and thr theft of Co 17s id at Fm-dell. Francis , Leo Calluplran. an ex-slationrnastor. was senten■ • • i In I'' months’ refromalive (j• *lltllioll by Mr .lustier Heed in the Supreme Court to-day. Prisoner was previously a booking rlerk at I lanncvirke, with a wife and five voting children and *2 1 years’ service. The manipulations commenced wliru he found himself in need of money for domestic purposes. He took small amounts from the petty casli and typed one eorreet return for the head office and incorrect return for Hannevirko. The amounts had been refunded from his superannuation, til passim: sentence H s Honour said e had looked into the prisoner's scheme, which was <iuitr* a pod one. Now that it ha j been discovered he toko it that the department would see there was no recurrence. The punishment was necessary not only for the individual but as a deterrent to others.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20426, 17 February 1938, Page 3
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