PRISONERS SENTENCED
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, This Day. llu: following prisoners wore "senfenced by Mr. Justice Smith this morning: William James Park, indecent assault, two years' reformative detention; William . Neilson Mnekie,' two charges of indecent assault, five years' probation, conditional on his remaining in tho Salvation Home at AllingtonFrancis Bernard Francis, false pretences and forgery, Ihreo years' reformative detention. In this case £-1000 was involved. Tho prisoner embarked in a junior business without capital, ami mortgaged the same cars to different finance agents. His Honour said that the finance companies which had been defrauded existed for the convenience of those requiring advances on cars by the issue of hire purchase agreements. These, were not legislerable consequently there was a clear opening for dishonest people to represent a. truck as froo when it had already been given as security to another company. Unless theso companies adopted a system of inter-company checking, fraud was possible.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 102, 4 May 1929, Page 11
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153PRISONERS SENTENCED Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 102, 4 May 1929, Page 11
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