IN OTHER PLACES.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 17017, 14 December 1920, Page 4

IN OTHER PLACES.

OBTAINING MONEY UNDER, FALSE . PRETENCES. (rr.ESS ASSOCI.\TION- TE7-KGP.AiT.) AUCKI/AND, Dec°inli«r 13. Charg«l with olitaJni-ng- jnonsy {or sliaroa for which ho failed io pivp account, and also witi) obtaining- money tnider ia-leo pretences, Walter Henry coramiseion ag<;nt, 3|'i>eaTt-fl in th'P Police Court to-day before Mr Cut ten, 5.31. Money wae r-ccured by the accused, it W4e alkged, nn the representation <hat lie wt3 tlia anthori««d representative 6f +b? Now Zealand Rubber Product?, Co.. TToiiinfrton. James "W"fleon. town e'erk at Deronport, tWd how he had lKn:p;ht shares in the >7ew Zealand Rubber Products Co. on accused's representations. TV. 8.. Durban, "W. S. Stone, Ilenry Gregory, 11. B. Bull, and Dasrid Teed tojd how they had bought fcharea from accused under tbe belief ihat he was an atent of the New Zetland P.nbber Preducte Co. One witness desoribed accrued fts liaring samples of rubber floor goods ■with him, and hiving said that he had ee»n tho JUibbor Company in "VYcllingrtca ia full operation. A. J. McLenran, acting eecretary of t-hft New Zealand Rubber Product® Company, of Wellington, eaid, in July, 1913. occuE?d was [employed by the company to Bell chars'* and receive appßcatkm money.' The Auckland i district Iras allotted to liinj, and he turned in numerous applications !or ehares. Iα cocaequenco oi complaints frorn ehirehdders and irregularities in, money received, he was' di£mis»ed in September as tho company's ngent. In 2lay they received an ayplkAtion. for shar&si, hut bo money vras enclosed in the application. It wae said that eccuaed had received tbe application and allotment aoney. The componv, lioxever, had never got; the amounts. Witness gave particulars of other trams for which accused, had never accountsd. At the period of several of the transactioise, accused was' not in the employ of the company >""" The *x>tal amount involved ia liaca

transactions from June, 1919, to Septembei 19-20, £925 18?. Accu?od, who pleaded guilty, **ae comaii ted to tho Supreme Couiit for sentence.