EX-TOWN CLERK IN TROUBLE
James Archer. ex-Town Clerk of Mas-t-srton, who was arrested at ljaeroa, appeared in tho Magistrate's Court yesterday, before ,Mr. i\ K. Hunt, S.M., and waß cliarged with making a false document on March.2B, 1918, by signing the name of P. J. Murphy to a receipt for t'hc sum of ,£39 15s. 2d.,, with the intention that it should bj acted upon as genuine. In asking that Archer "be remanded to appear at Masterton on Friday next, Chief-Detective Ward stated that there were in all fourteen charges pending against the accused, and the amount involved was about J21200. 1 \ The remand was granted and bail was allowed in two sureties of .£4OO each. Archer was at the time of his arrest employed as engineer to the recentlyformed Hauraki Plains County Council.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 82, 31 December 1920, Page 8
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134EX-TOWN CLERK IN TROUBLE Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 82, 31 December 1920, Page 8
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