FRAUD ALLEGED
ORDERS FOft FLOODLIGHTS [Per United Press Association-.] WELLINGTON) November 16. The hearing of the charges of fraud alleged against C. E. Vickers and E. M. .Gilmour in connection with their activities relating to the Craftsman Manufacturing Company was continued to-day. , A statement that the Railways Departmeht never had negotiations with the Craftsman Company and that the company’s train lamps had never been tried on the railways was made by Percy Roy Angus, locomotive superintendent of the New Zealand Railways. , A harbour board electrician said h* inspected' the company’s ' floodlight in 1930 and decided that they were unsuitable. ... George Lauchlan, assistant general manager of the 'Wellington electricity, department, said he inspected tha Craftsman lights in 1930, but the council did not negotiate with the company for lights. •Similar evidence was given by tha assistant mechanical engineer of the tramways departmeht, and the secretary of the Wellington Speedways Ltd.denied that his company ever did business with the Craftsman Company. The;- case was. then adjourned till Monday. - ■_
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Evening Star, Issue 21879, 16 November 1934, Page 10
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166FRAUD ALLEGED Evening Star, Issue 21879, 16 November 1934, Page 10
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