City Frauds in Sydney.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 224, 15 October 1887, Page 2

City Frauds in Sydney.

A stealing revelation ',^-fcys tho Sydney *' Telegraph '") was ir ado bylho Mayor at the meeting %of the commitii-e^ of fche City '.yesterday. In of ■ivhab ,hv& come under T jiss notice he iad, he said, impounded the books iConnectfjd with the oiiy architect's ,4Uid city building Burv«£ or's departMnenb, .and had caused a special audit ,to be rnadclby Mr James KoWrtson, of the jfirm of Sooiiller and Robertson. The re«sulfc ■of this.-audit was to shes^ that from {the year ISJS up to 1886 a jsysfefiiriatic plan «f falsify ing ;i he accounts had <cW:ained in 4fche departfnent, tlie resulfc iDeiifc** that defalcations i to M\e amount of neai^y £5,000 tiad been The AVh/Jd© matter wras due tfttfne fact that -dureii^ these yo&v3 the apQQJnts in conneetionxwth this elqpftrtijaent had been manipulafcetl <by the of&QQpj tberae^ives Avithoufe any or <toafe:6L None of the moneys ibafci been f>ai^«directly infoo the Treasury^ and *«onsequeutly butts l^tad been torn out ,eia^ re«eipfce falsified. One official !has ibeen fiuapeiidetl, a,nd jf.nother is likely tfe) be ««aUwJly , .deaiti.tfith.