£looo DEFALCATIONS
LODGE SECRETARY LOSSES IX BUSINESS (By Telegraph.—Press Association) BLENHEIM, Wednesday Defalcations exceeding £IOOO in the funds of Court Clarendon, Foresters’ Lodge, Picton, resulted in the appearance in court at Picton this morning of Newton Charles Murray Blizzard, mercer, on a charge of theft. Accused pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence to the Supreme Court at Wellington. The charges disclosed irregularities extending from August, 1935, to May, 1939. Accused, who was secretary of the lodge, confessed that he had insufficient experience for the position. When his mercery business began to fall he borrowed lodge funds. He subsequently transferred his business to Miramar, Wellington, but without success. He sold his stock, hoping to repay the lodge deficiencies, but there was no surplus alter meeting the accounts of the business.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21246, 17 October 1940, Page 2
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130£l000 DEFALCATIONS Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21246, 17 October 1940, Page 2
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