HOKITIKA.
Friday. John Howe Hamer, late agent for the Bank,of Hew Zealnnd at Boss, was com* mitted at the Magistrate's Court to the Supreme Court on three charges of embezzlement of the bonk funds. There are six other charges being proceeded with, on all of which it is thought committals will take place. The total amount discovered short is a little over one thousand pounds. The defalcations commenced last March. At various times since, Hamer granted a fixed deposit receipt, not entering the amounts in the day cash book, and also amounts entered in customers' pass books and initialed, which never went through the books of the bank.
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2841, 23 March 1878, Page 2
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108HOKITIKA. Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2841, 23 March 1878, Page 2
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