YOUNG MAN'S LAPSE
COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE
, (By Telegraph.—Fress Association.) BOTOEUA, This Day. ■ Pleading guilty to a charge of failure to account for £104 16s 7d to a Government Department, a young man was committed for sentence at the Supreme Court, Auckland, by Justices of the Peace at the Eotorua Court this morning. On the application of counsel, an order was made suppressing the accused's name. Bail was granted in his own recognisance and two sureties of £50. In evidence,, the officer in charge of the Department stated that the accused was a good officer at particular work, but had been reprimanded for slackness in bookkeeping methods which' might have accounted for \he loss of the money. On the deficiency being discovered, the accused admitted the offence. - Detective 'White produced a statement by the accused admitting the misappropriation of cash. The detective said that inquiries showed the accused to be considered a good character in the town.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 62, 14 March 1934, Page 11
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156YOUNG MAN'S LAPSE Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 62, 14 March 1934, Page 11
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