HEAVY DEFALCATIONS.
"GAMBLING A GREAT CURSE.” Napier, August 23. At the Supreme Court to-day, the Chief Justice, Sir Robert Stout, sentenced Montague Thomas Saline Pasley, of Hastings, to seven years’ reformative detention for the embezzlement of £472 from the firm of Hoadley, Son and Stewart, of which he was accountant. Sir Robert Stout said he understood that the total defalcations amounted to no less than £12,000. The accused had given way to gambling, which was a great curse, and was ruining hundreds of people i*i New Zealand.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2471, 24 August 1922, Page 2
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87HEAVY DEFALCATIONS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2471, 24 August 1922, Page 2
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