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Pacific Islands Monthly, 19 July 1948Vol. XVIII, No. 12

Embezzlement Of Cricket

p. 26 · Read in the full issue

Club Funds

A MEMBER of the staff of Steamships Trading Co., Ltd., Arthur Riley, came before Judge Gore in Port Moresby recently on a charge that he had embezzled over £lOO, the property of the Port Moresby Cricket Club, of which he was secretary and acting treasurer, Riley was sentenced to six months’ im nrisonment, to be reduced to one month if he refunded to the Club the money that had been stolen. The money was refunded. Riley served the reduced sentence in Port Moresby.