SUPREME COURT.
K.-UX’i'jIFFE FOUND GUILTY. WELLINGTON August 17. At the Supreme Court Herbert Eaton Biulelilfe, recently chief clerk in the Mines Department was retried on charges of stealing £l5O and £35. the property of filie Government,. The jury found prisoner guilty and added the following rider to the verdict: ‘•We recommend the attention of tin: Public Service* Commissioner he drawn to the need for better safeguards in dealing with public, ■ money (1) by requiring payers to write the amount in words when requiring receipts, (2) »v making a regulation having the effect of certifying that officers cannot operate on either imprest accounts or deposit accounts without fJlio countersignature of another responsible officer. Radcliffe was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment- with hard lab«ur-
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1917, Page 1
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122SUPREME COURT. Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1917, Page 1
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