NOT GUILTY
SHAREBROKER ACQUITTED.
CHARGE OF “HAWKING” FAILS.
JUDGE EXPLAINS THE LAW.
(Per Presß Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. A verdict of not guilty was returned this morning at the trial of Osmond Arthur Bridgewater on 11 charges of share-hawking.
' The jury was absent 15 minutes. In summing up, Mr Justice Northcroft said that the section of the Companies Act under which Bridgewater was charged did not make it an offence to carry on share transactions in dwelling houses, and if it were so intended then it was most unhappily worded, and prohibited only going from house to house to offer shares to the public or a member of the public.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 110, 19 February 1937, Page 5
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