THE PURCHASERS’ PROPERTY

Evening Star, Issue 21708, 1 May 1934, Page 14

THE PURCHASERS’ PROPERTY

INTERESTING DECISION IN RADIO THEFT CASE £P*b United Pkiss Association.] WELLINGTON, April 30. Arising out of a case heard in March in which two radio salesmen were convicted of the theft of twenty-live radio sets, application was made in the Magistrate’s Court to-day by the police for a decision as to whom four of the sets concerned in the case, and now hold by them, should bo delivered. Hamilton, Nimino, and Sons Ltd., who bad employed the salesmen, submitted that the sets should be returned to them, and this was opposed by four other parties who bad bought the sets from the salesmen. The magistrate (Mr E. Page) directed that they should ho returned to the four people from whom the police had obtained them. The four purchasers were Mr E. J. Webb, Mr M. H. Hood, Mrs E. Stockman, and Mrs House. The magistrate, after bearing the evidence, said the facts were somewhat unusual, and it appeared that the method by which the salesmen obtained the goods was not that authorised. He had ”to decide, however, whether Nimmos or the other four parties were entitled to possession. The sets had been in the possession of these four persons when they were taken by the police under what appeared to them to be a binding sale. Now Nimmos said the salesmen had no authority. It seemed to him, as matters stood, that the sets should bo returned to these four people. If Nimmos had a right to possession they could assert it in other proceedings