POSTAL OFFICIAL’S LOSS
ACCEPTED A VALUELESS CHEQUE. Wellington, December 2. Before Mr Justice MacGregor, :n the Supreme Court, is proceeding an application for issue of a writ c f mandamus against the Post and Telegraph Board of Appeal by James Alexander Elliott, postal official, who pleads that he has been fined £lO tor accepting a post-dated cheque for £oo in October, 1925. being one of a series of valueless cheques by which William Smith and Sidney Eric Baume fraudulently secured £lllO, of which £1026 was recovered. Elliott pleads that he followed the departmental regulations and should not have to pav the fine. The Appeal Court had refused to proceed with the hearing. The Department sets out several grounds why the application should tail, among which are that £lO was not a fine, but ElUott’s share of the missing amount of £B4. which had to be made good bv the officials concerned.
Mr Justice MacGregor dismissed the application.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 3 December 1927, Page 7
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157POSTAL OFFICIAL’S LOSS Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 3 December 1927, Page 7
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