FALSE PRETENCES –

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 113, 6 February 1937, Page 9

FALSE PRETENCES -

Reformative Detention For Share Salesman A share salesman, Robert Emmett Burrowes, aged 38, who had been found guilty on four charges of false pretences, was sentenced to nine months' reformative detention by the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) in the Supreme Court, Wellington, yesterday. The charges arose out of the sale by Burrowes of some shares which he held in Lange’s Mobile Gas Producer. Limited. It was alleged that in disposing of the shares he used the names of other companies with which he had no connection and on whose behalf he had no authority to sneak. “I propose to sentence you to reformative detention with a recommendation io the Prisons Board that if you satisfy them that restitution can be made" they should consider the question of releasing you at an early date, s.aid his Honour. I would not make that suggestion if you had obtained money from a number of other people as well as those mentioned in the indictment, but the Crown prosecutor says you have not, except in, cases where a refund has been made." Mr. F. W. Ongley appeared for prisoner.