DIRECTOR ON TRIAL
ELEVEN CHARGES HEARD. FAILURE TO ACCOUNT ALLEGED. (Per Press Association) AUCKLAND, July 31. The trial of James Milward Houston, a company director, aged 44, on eight, charges of fraudulently failing to account for money, two charges of theft and one of forgery, was begun in the Supreme Court. It was alleged that on various dates between October 5, 1928, and February 11, 1933, accused omitted to account for £1755 which lie liad received on behalf of John Burns and Co., Ltd; and that on April 20, 1932, and March 31, 1933, he stole sums totalling £127, the property of Tobart Berkel (N.Z.), Ltd. It was further alleged that accused forged a stock §;heet purporting to be a correct list of stocks in the possession of Hobart Berkel (N.Z.), Ltd., as at March 31, 1932; and that, knowing it to be false, he caused John Burns and Co., Ltd., to act upon it as if it were genuine. Evidence was heard on the lines of that in the Police Court recently. Twenty-two of the 29 witnesses for the Crown had been heard when the case was adjourned.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 248, 1 August 1933, Page 3
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