STRUCK OFF ROLLS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 51, Issue 134, 19 March 1931, Page 4

STRUCK OFF ROLLS.

TWO SOLICITORS IN TROUBLE* (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, This Day. The Court of Appeal to-day gave its decision on the application ot the New Zealand Law Society to have Ronald Gray Mason and Charles Ellis Waddingham, both of Auckland, barristers and solicitors, struck off the rolls of practising barristers and solicitors of the Dominion. Mr von Haast, for the Law Society, said yesterday that the application was based on the grounds that the practitioners had failed to keep a separate trust account, and done acts which amounted to misappropriation of trust moneys, had failed to have the trust account audited, had made fictitious entries to mislead their auditors, had a shortage in the trust account, and had had cheques dishonoured on numerous occasions. In giving judgment to-dav, the Chief Justice (Sir M. Mvers) said that the Court was unanimously of opinion that the onlv course to he adopted was to strike the practitioners off the rolls., and that, would he accordingly done. Costs, Id guineas, together with disbursements which include a -special audit fee £43 3s, were allowed the Law Society.