CREDIT GOT BY FRAUD.
"EXTREME SIMPLICITY."
PETROL SOLD AT 8/ A CASE.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
C'HRISTCHURCH, tis day.
The ease with which business people give credit was commented on in the Supreme Court to-day, when John Bullars McKenzie came up for sentence for obtaining credit by fraud.
Counsel described the "extreme simplicity" of accused's method, stating that temptation was put in his way by lax trading, especially in petrol. He obtained petrol cheap and sold it to one E. P. Wright at a price that should have given the man who bought it an indication of its origin. McKenzie bought 3000 cases, and sold it at 8/ to 10/ a case. He traded in the same way in galvanised iron and sugar. Wright evidently had given very little consideration to the transaction: McKenzie was sentenced to three ' years' reformative detention. • 1
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 246, 17 October 1928, Page 7
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