POSSESSION OF CAR: MISSING UNION SECRETARY
(PA.) AUCKLAND, This Day. A five-seater sedan car, abandoned at Piha on April 23 by Walter Ashton, union secretary, was the subject of an application by the police in the Magistrate’s Court, today for. determination of title. There were'two claimants, Alfred Charles Ashton, farmer, . of Matangi, and Harold Stanislaus Gallagher, present secretary of the Auckland Trades Council. The police said it was established tha Walter Ashton had failed to account for £2144 of the Trades Council and Glassworkers’ Union funds.-
Ashton's brother, who paid the last instalment of £35, claimed the vehicle on behalf of relatives.
After a discussion between the-par-ties, the Magistrate, Mr J. H. Luxford, made an. order for'the sale ■ of the car and. the lodgement of the money with the. Public Trustee, less the amount paid by Ashtori’s brother:-
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 October 1948, Page 7
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