INFORMATIONS DISMISSED

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21512, 29 June 1935, Page 19

INFORMATIONS DISMISSED

! FORMER COUNCILLOR ! CIIARCi-:!) j ! SALE OF A MOTOit-THIXK | t iSOCUTtfft /I.K's ! , WE r J .IN CJTOM, June 23. j Alleging that Barton Ginger. a cus- j torn., agent and a forwr member "1' the Lower Hutt .Borough Council, v:u interested in the a 11: of ;■ swond-hand motor-truck to (ho borou/h «:«>widJ in • October, l!i:W. ntirt that a deliberate . attempt had been made lo conceal the i true nature <>C the transaction. the > Audit Department laid three iniorma- j t.ions against Ginger in the Magistrate's Court, to-day, these being ilia; i iiavin:; on October ID.'J.'i, become in- i capacitated from bsjiic; a councillor, : bo attended meeting:; a:; a member . on (he three dates given. Ginger : pleaded not guilty. . '['ln- incapacitation alleged whs that; he was concerned or interested in a contract mafic by the council ammmtip.!< to £ 100. The meeting* attended, it 'was stated, were only three of a larjje number. Gin; t was a director ! of Barton Ginger and Company, Ltd., j and the point at issue was whether j ihe truck was bought from the firm f indirectly. or whether ihe transaction : as carried out was a transaction of Horace Ginger or some other, apart from the firm. The case wan dismissed by :Vlr H. P. Lawry. S..M. Tho magistrate, after hearing the defence, said he had heard 'enough to dismiss the ease on its j merits. The attempts that had been ! made to suggest tiiat ccrta entries I were falsified were clearly unjustified. | jJi war; clear that J.'.arlon Ginger had no personal interest, m the transaction, and was in no way interested in tho truck, except that ne was ani- : eus to see that; the council made a j good deal. |