PUBLIC SWINDLED.
CRASH AUCKLAND LAWYERS. ACCOUNTS NOT AUDITED. By Telegraph.-—Press Association. ■Auckland, Nov. 11. At the Supreme Court, James Waring Jamison, an accountant, aged 61, appeared for sentence on five counts ot* making false declarations in connection with the trust account of Hammond and Cracknell, solicitors. It was stated accused had recently undergone a severe operation and required hospital treatment for six months. Mr. Justice Stringer said Jamison had failed for five years to audit the accounts, with tlie result that while in the first year the firm’s accounts showed a deficit of £ll,OOO, which he should have detected, when the crash came cm'bezzlements exceeded £45,000, the public, owing to accused’s default, being swindled to that extent. It would be cruelty to send accused to prison in his present condition of health and, therefore, he would postpone sentence for six months to ascertain then whether Jamison’s health was sufficiently restored to receive punishment if it was thought fit that punishment should be imposed on him.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1922, Page 5
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165PUBLIC SWINDLED. Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1922, Page 5
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