COLLECTIONS POCKETED

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 8, 31 March 1927, Page 9

COLLECTIONS POCKETED

CANVASSER PLEADS GUILTY HAD NOT ENOUGH TO LIVE ON Seven months as a canvasser for the Reliance Printery Co., brought Christian John Taylor, a South African, aged 56 years, £223 10s by fraudulent means. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence to-day on 62 charges of theft.

Tajdor’s method was to collect money for advertisements in the

“Chamber of Commerce Journal,” on behalf of the Reliance Printery Co. and to put the cash in his own pocket. When an advertisement appeared and an account was sent to the advertiser he would cover his traces by ringing up and saying “Please destroy that account, it was sent out by mistake.” He also, without any authority whatever collected subscriptions to the Chamber of C»>tp" ,a and pocketed £l9 0s 9d in that way. |!

In his statement to the police, Taylor said that he had a wife and son to maintain, and the 15 per cent, commission allowed him was not enough to live on. He had started to convert the money to his own use in November or December last. Evidence was given by several of the victims, and by the secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. Defendant pleaded guilty and had nothing to say. Messrs. A. J. Stratford and S. J. Marks, .J.P.’s, were on the Bench.