FAILURE TO ACCOUNT
COMPANY DIRECTOR IN TROUBLE By Telegraph.—Press Association. Napier, June 8. The trial concluded in the Supreme Court to-day of Raymond Edwards, alias Roy Nash, who was charged that at Feilding, on April 9, 1922, he received £25 from the Treasure Cycle and Vulcanising and failed to account for the money to the Edwards Vulcanising Equipment and Manufacturing Company, of which he was a director. Edwards was also charged that at Dunedin on November .3, 1922, he, received £166 from E. R. Burgess and failed to account for the same to the company, or, in the alternatiyd, that he stole vulcanising plant talued at £4OO, the property of the company. It was accused’s duty to travel about the country for the company, getting orders for plant, and the first charge was in respect to plant ..old at lending; for which the full purchase money was not accounted for. Evidence concerning the second and third charges showed that accused handed plant to Burgess in settlement of a private debt without the authority of the company. The jury returned a verdict of guilty on the first and second charges. Accused was remanded for rentenco.
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 225, 11 June 1923, Page 9
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194FAILURE TO ACCOUNT Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 225, 11 June 1923, Page 9
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