HOW THE MONEY WENT

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3647, 4 June 1927, Page 2

HOW THE MONEY WENT

LADY CLERK'S THEFT. A lady clerk who pleaded guilty at Christchurch to a charge of embezzing £1892 from her employers put in some of Ihe items on which she had spent money. Following are only some of those she enumerated: Present to people in England, £3O; party in St. Albans, band. £5 ss, supper and novelties £lO, hall £1 10s; party in Fitzgerald avenue, £10; frocks, etc.,,£Bo and £7O; hats, .shoes, and repairs, £25; rent at Sumner for one year, £65; holidays at Dunedin, Easter, 1926_, £SO; silver cigarette cases as presents, £5; present to girl friends, £10; luncheons, £25; duty on Indian presents, £4; spent at various fetes, £2O; serviette ring, etc., £.10: lent to sister, £l2; taxi to Lyttelton, 17/(5; Christmas and birthday presents to family, £25; smoker’s stand £3 3s: linen, etc., in box, £25; gramophone, £23 10s; records, £ls or £2O; bicycle, £l2 12s; string of pearls from India, £lO or £2O; gold watch £6 10s; carved ivory bangles from India, £5; real tortoiseshell pieces, £5 to £10; Blue Wedgwood china, £4: afternoon tea set, £3; various articles of clothing, £8; suite of' moquettc and Wilton carpet, £52; oak bed and duchess and bed £2 12s Od; various linen articles £3O or over £25 10s; oak table, £4 4s.