BANKRUPT’S CAREER
missing trust funds misappropriation admitted SOLICITOR’S DOWNFALL To-day the police arrested Henry Victor Mansill, the Auckland solicitor who yesterday admitted that he had misappropriated trust funds amounting to £7,500. tfANSILL tvill to charged with the Al theft of the money. it a meeting of Mansill's creditors vesterday, before the official assignee, Mr G. N. Morris, he said that he could not make any excuse for his nreseni position. He had had the Importunity early in his career to make S ood - but he thought that his initial success imbued him with too much optimism. Mansill admitted to the official assignee that soine 40 items on the list of liabilities represented moneys nhich he misappropriated from trust funds. He began business in July, 1923, as a solicitor. He had no capital, but a friend guaranteed him an overdraft of £3OO. Mansill’s statement of his accounts showed a surplus of £9OB, but it was stated at the meeting yesterday that the assets had been overvalued. The arrested man had premises in the National Bank Buildings, in Shortland Street.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 334, 20 April 1928, Page 13
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180BANKRUPT’S CAREER Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 334, 20 April 1928, Page 13
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