LARGE SUM STOLEN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 January 1943, Page 2

LARGE SUM STOLEN

COMPANY DIRECTOR PLEADS GUILTY. COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE. (By Telegraph—Press WELLINGTON, This Day. Leonard Bowley Bolton-Moss, company director, pleaded guilty in the Magistrates’ Court yesterday to five charges of having, while managing director of the firm of Hamiltons (Australia and N.Z.) Limited, on various dates in 1939, 1940 and 1941, converted to his own use sums totalling felo6o. The sums had been paid to him with a direction that they should be applied as capital moneys of the Luminous Paint Syndicate, and expended solely in payment for the New Zealand selling rights in respect of certain fluorescent compounds, and the costs of and incidental to certain investigations in Australia. The charges included the sum of £5O received from Leslie Edwin Lovell, at Wellington, on or about October 2, 1939; £5OO from John Tinline Harkness, at Wellington, on February 16, 1940; £250 from William Smith MacGibbon, at Wellington, ‘on or about February 20, 1940; £250 from Gilbert Mark Truman, at Wellington, on or about February 24, 1941; £lO from Gilbert Stanley Foord, at Wellington, on or about June 26, 1941. ’