LICENSE CANCELLED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 117, 20 May 1933, Page 11

LICENSE CANCELLED.

GOLD DEALER CONVICTED.

STORY OF DIAMOND RING. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUXEDIN, Friday. | Strong comment by Mr. 11. W. Bundle, | S.M., followed a case in which Zeta Ben- ! jamin was charged with receiving a I diamond pearl cluster ring, valued at j £10, knowing it to have been dishonestly obtained, and her husband, Cyril Benjamin, a partner in a gold buying smelting company, was charged with ' purchasing the ring and failing to enter | the name of the person from whom he | purchased it. ! The evidence showed that the woman ! defendant was relieving her husband in j his shop, he being ill, and bought the ring from a youth for 10/. It was sent to Cliristehurch next day with other gold purchased. Cyril Benjamin stated that when clients brought rings they were paid for the gold and they could have the stones back if they wished. j The magistrate said that such pracI tice could be stigmatised only as dis- ! honest business, but seeing that the : woman was merely acting temporarily 1 as her husband's agent he was loath to ' convict her, though if the husband were so charged he would have been convicted. The charge was dismissed. I- The husband was convicted of a_ minor ' charge against him and fined £5. His dealer's license was cancelled, Mr. Bundle characterising the business as a menace to the public. i — I — :