Store Manager Gaoled

For Theft

Western Samoa was a little shocked in July, when Otto Mac- Farland, a branch manager for Messrs. Morris Hedstrom Ltd., in Fagamalo, in Savaii, was sentenced to 2 h years’ gaol for stealing, from his employers, £1,046 in cash, £623 in goods, and £73 in petrol. He conducted his own defence, and claimed it was not theft, but “failure to account”; but Chief Judge Marsack would not accept that plea. MacFarland was born in Samoa, and is only 27.