SECRETARY’S THEFT
£561 ’FROM. HIS EMPLOYERS
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AUCKLAND, July 13
William Henry Pollock, aged 53, pleaded guilty, to-day to charges of stealing £561 from a timber company, which employed' him as secretary. He was committed for, sentence. ..
In a (statement to the police PolJock said ■ jfihat. after coming from (Wellington, he - had to abandon the house he had been buying, and he !?-’(st the equity-*'of aboui- ‘£6o9. In Auckland, lie; found himself : an difficulties, and, after March, 1931, took ismall sums, most’of which he gambled away. The position got gradually worse, and he began betting in bigger sums but only got deeper involved.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1933, Page 6
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105SECRETARY’S THEFT Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1933, Page 6
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