ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1530, 11 August 1905, Page 2

ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT

-1 AUCKLAND RACING CLUB’S 3 BIG DEFICIT. 3 8 3 (Per F**sb Actaocia/IHo®.) I Auckland, last night. I I A warrant has been issued for the arrest ’ I of P. Dawson, accountant to the Auckland \ Raoing Club, on a oharge of having 1 1 appropriated a considerable aum of money ? I the property of his employers. The warI rant has been placed in tbe hands of the polioe for execution. Dawson has not be6n at tho office since Wednesday. He is said to have remarked on that day that lit was his intention to pay a isit to Waiuku. It is believed, however, that ho left for Fiji by the J Taviuni on the same afternooo, and the authorities at Suva have been oommuniI cated with by oable. It is authoritatively ' announced that considerably more than 1 £IOOO is missing from the club’s banking account, and that probably the amount will be found to be close on twico that sum. Auditors are at work examining tho aooounts with a view to arriving at the figures. At tho annual mooting of members of tbe Auckland Racing Club, bald on Monday afternoon last, the statement of receipts and expenditure in connection with the general account showed a balance in I the bank of close on £9OO. Thi”,however, I I on subsequent investigation was found to I I be iocorroot, and the defioiency was dis-1 I closed. This was discovorod accidentally on Wednesday. One of the officials jocularly remarked to the manager of the I banking institution with which tho club j does business that the club would oxpeot internet on tho aum standing to its credit, j The manp.gor, in reply, informed the official that thero was no balance in hand. This aroused tho latter’s suspicions as to the true position of affairs. On his return to the racing club’s offico the official is said to have spokon to the accountant touching tho conversation with tbe bank manager, aod to have suggested that ao-1 counts should be gone into.