FAILURE TO ACCOUNT

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 256, 21 June 1932, Page 6

FAILURE TO ACCOUNT

INSURANCE AGENT FAILS TO RENDER ACCOUNT ADMITTED TO PROBATION. An insurance agent, Lewis R. Ettevshank, who failed to account for various sums of money to the Prov'dont Life Assurance Co., was bvought before Mr. S. L. Patterson, S.M., yesterday morning and admitted to probation. The offences were all committed during the month of { May. The first charged covered the I sum of £3/0/4, which he was called to account for on May 9. Other j omounts involved, the subject of • seuarate charges, were: £3/4/7, £3/18/1 £4/9/-, £2/12/10, £1/7/6, !\ 1/1. and £5/2/-. » Mr. Roe. who appeared for the . •"uwed, entered a plea of guilty on -ll charges. ? S°nior-Sergeant J. Carroll, in out- ! liriine- the case stated that Ettershank : h* ! baen employed by the company ' T'o'.o 'Ui for some months, and up nnt'l tho beginning of May had car- | riod out his duties satisfactorily; he j Jhen hfgr.n to malce a break. The ■! goanl cxprow.ed regret at finding i ; v-.>'!u r m such *j position, and sa.d i" tad Im— n ^mrloyed by the •«.* rh-ji.u tiU'.'nt for a numher of yc !?•-, ami bore a good character. H; . v.tffi-'. ar.iounted to £2/18/- a mu ihe r.-nson given for the if 'fa'.'ai atrr: *v:i. tlif.-t « oining ! UHtti'ii;; hv had ;>-iu:nvd deb- > 1 .v;v- b.'U'g pUMli'd f«'l' p.UVUit 1)1. *i'> had i;i eaiiri prol fofMlirig- v. hi«4i wixiid '■ndanger hi* ' ioil. ! M E. Roe .••t.niiriued what llu- : s jr.'eit)'' tad ?ai(! about ihe Hamili.lt, .. When v—u-'ed obtained ' 'v.-i.'l; h> ro hc wa" threatened with Iir.MV.-diiiga. TTe a)d iiM|«at»d mnkirig oeo-1' good 'oie,t,)s*;ei! • and loek h ».);>))(■;•', h :t i ive (*")»ini! ■ ic ns \vc re lioi ear-i. .1 aiui h" « * " » ii L I noi r«'j>ay ; ' hr eash i, ■«!»'. n. ilc ah o had lo p:«y ' (I :i u-eek t()i" t!((- ()U > e'j.'.se j'fice of !o . evele. atid H vas very iiif • llonii t'or i i;0 to (iji his position «n, •• ve.ve. So far as re--liiution was coucerned, Ettershank h ;i a joh to go at Timberlands, and • *f g:v n timo would be able to pay ; hro'k th-o money he had taken. 7T:s W' rship docided to grant prohj.tfon for tvo years upon the condit'on thai the sum of £34/10/2 was repaid.