DOMINION NEWS

Taranaki Daily News, 22 August 1922, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS

TRAMWAY OFFICE ROBBED. By Telegraph.—-Press Association. Dunedin, August 21. The office of the Tramways Department was entered between Saturday night and Sunday morning and £450 abstracted, being the bulk of Saturday’s takings. About £lOO in small change was left. The door of the strong-room was not forced. Either a duplicate key or a skeleton key. was used. CHORAL SOCIETIES’ ASSOCIATION. Wellington, August 21. At a conference of choral societies to-day delegates from Auckland, Stratford, Palmerston North, Masterton, Hastings, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin decided to form an association of the choral societies of New Zealand. It passed a resolution against the amusement tax on the societies and resolved to send a deputation to the Prime Minister. GUILTY OF EMBEZZLEMENT. Hastings, August 21. Montague Thomas Sabine Paisley, accountant with Hoadley, Son and Stewart, Ltd., merchants and auctioneers, Hastings, appeared in court on remand charged on seven counts with having stolen on different dates between last December and July various sums amounting to £471 13s 3d, the property of the firm. Accused, who gave himself up. pleaded guilty to all the charges. In a signed statement to the police accused admitted all the charges and said that he joined the firm thirteen years ago and about a year afterwards commenced taking small amounts and, before he realised it, found himself deeply involved until he could bear the strain no longer. He kept a private account of all his defalcations, which he handed to the auditor. None of the money had been saved, but it had been spent principally in gambling. The total defalcations were a very large sum. He was committed for sentence at the present sittings of the Supreme Court at Napier.