PHOTOGRAPHIC SALESMAN SENTENCED

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22343, 5 March 1938, Page 11

PHOTOGRAPHIC SALESMAN SENTENCED

♦ CONVERSION AND THEFT (rXISS ASSOCIATION TELIORAU.) DUNEDIN, March 4. In the Magistrate's Court George Thompson, a salesman employed by a firm dealing in photographic enlargements was sentenced to tnrec months' imprisonment on two charges, ™e of receiving £4B on. terms requiring him to pay it to his employers, D&mond and Hart, and the other of the theft of £ls, the property of the same firm, the sentences to be concurrent. Chief-Detective B. Young said that Thompson was employed on a commission basis, receiving 15s for booked orders and the same amount for cash collections. He was supplied with a car. He failed to account for both the sums. Thompson could not be located, said the chief-detective, though the car was found in Christchurch in January. Thompson was arrested in Auckland under an assumed name and sentcnccc for unlawful conversion of the car. Counsel for Thompson said that the extent of the photographic business could be gauged when in one district there were six photographic salesmen with cars. The Magistrate: Were they all dealing in photographic enlargements? Counsel: Yes. The Magistrate: There are allort r of fcols •in thte world. ♦ Counsel.'.said that Thompson informed him that there was a profit of anything up to 400 or 500 per cent. on. the sale of these photographs.