SECRETARY CHARGED WITH THEFT.
PURCHASE OF A MOTOB-CAE,
By Telegraph—Press Association. Hastlnfls, May 28. Sydney, .Martell, land and comniissioh agent, Hastings, _ ex-manager and secretary of the Hastings l'Yuit Cold Storage Company, was- to-day committed for trial on a charge of stealing i! 19 1; 17s. /id:, tha. property of the company. "' Peculiar in- \ ' rerest. attaches _to the .ease as the. .trans*-' ■, fiction was plainly recorded in the company*s books. The sum involved was - Used by Martell. for the .purchase of a motor-car. Martell filled in the cornpany's signed blank cheque and debited the amount to- his own. salary account. 'At a later date, without,- it is alleged,' ?ny express authority'from , the directors, ho caused to be opened in the company's ■books a motor-car account, to which,'ho transferred the debit, at the same time crediting liis salary account with the amount. The hearing of . evidence has occupied- the Magistrate's Coitrt for seven days. Further charges; against Martell are of stealing,' on or about May 2i, 1915, the sum of JS100; on June 28.. 1915, ■£15; and between January ID, 1915, and May 25, 1915, ,£24 6s, id., these, moneys being the property 'of the company.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2781, 27 May 1916, Page 9
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194SECRETARY CHARGED WITH THEFT. Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2781, 27 May 1916, Page 9
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