FALSE PRETENCES.
SALE OF BACON TO ARMY. (P.A.) DUNEDIN, July 28. Chatges of false pretences were admitted by Harry Herbert Johnson and James Campbell Smith, partners in the butchery firm of Bartons, Ltd., and Robert Samuel Kroon, chief cleric in the Army Department. Defendants were jointly charged with attempting to obtain £l2 Is 8d from the Army Department by representing that the department had been supplied with 9611 b of bacon, w r hereas only 7631 b was supplied. An accounts clerk gave evidence that when he found that the accounts did not tally he asked Kroon for instructions. The latter told him to pass them as O.K. According to further evidence, Johnson and Smith said Kroon approached them with a view to straightening up a shortage of sacks in his department. He asked them to debit the Army with the amount of bacon pentioned, the difference to be applied as the sale of sacks. They did so, they said, to help him out of a difficulty. The three accused were committed for sentence.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 247, 29 July 1943, Page 2
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