CLUB’S MONEY USED
THEFTS BY SECRETARY (By Telegraph.—Press Association) AUCKLAND, Monday The theft of various sums of money totalling £228 from the Devonport Returned Soldiers’ Club between April 1934, and August 1940, was admitted by Ernest Masters, aged 60, clerk, before Mr J. Morling, S.M. In a signed statement to the police Masters said he was a war pensioner, having been a prisoner of war in the last war. He was secretary to the Devonport Returned Soldiers’ Club to March last, when he was also appointed treasurer. Some time after his appointment as secretary he began using the club’s money for his own purposes, continuing until June last. He altered figures in the bank book. He earned £6 weekly, but lived above his means.
The police said Masters gave himself up. Masters pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21195, 19 August 1940, Page 8
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139CLUB’S MONEY USED Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21195, 19 August 1940, Page 8
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