"TOTALLY INADEQUATE."
A SMALL SALARY LEADS TO
EMBEZZLEMENT
[Pe« Press Association.]
Wellington, August 20
Horace Arthur Cramond, some time branch manager in Wellington for Cook and Son, pleaded guilty in th Supreme Court to the embezzlement of £1435 from his employers. Counsel said it was the .saddest case on record. Accused increased the local business by leaps and bounds, until £50,000 passed through the office. His animal
average was £302, taking into account the bonuses and commission. He had been twenty-live years- with the firm and fourteen years in Wellington. The Crown Prosecutor agreed that the salary was totally inadequate under the circumstances in wh'.cn accused was employed. He was remanded tilled till Monday for sentence.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 3, 21 August 1914, Page 3
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116"TOTALLY INADEQUATE." Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 3, 21 August 1914, Page 3
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