Guilty on Two Charges
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Former Suva Postmasten
IN the Supreme Court, Suva, imi mid-July, John Herbert Wiley,y; ex-Postmaster at Suva, wass sentenced to 18 months’ gaol om each of two charges of falsification of accounts.
He was acquitted of a thircbi charge of larceny by clerk or ser-i vant of His Majesty’s Governments Mr. W, G. Bryce, Fiji Solicitor-t General, who conducted the Crowriv case said that a board of surveys during January disclosed a deficit of £3OO, which Wiley stated musts; have been removed from his safet when it was unlocked. He had paior in £lOO of his own money and madeb a false entry concerning the £2003*.
An entry in the Postmaster’!'i cashbook showed that £2OO haos been sent to the post office as Lakemba. This was a false entry— ! £2OO had never been requested b?;d Lakemba; it was an amount far in: excess of their needs.