COURT NEWS

Grey River Argus, 20 June 1925, Page 7

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£6OO FINES FOR INCOME TAX EVASIONS. AUCKLAND, June If. At Hie Police Court, the Campbel!. Ehrenfried Company, and two of its officers, Sidney Horace Abell, and Albert Ernest Bollard, each were charged with making false income retui’as. Tim Court imposed fines of one hundred pounds costs, o neach of six charges, two against the company and tw : against each of the other defendants Counsel for the defence said thev had pleaded guilty as tin* Act was allembracing, and it was hard to resist ii. even if thp offences v.mre only thos< of neglige-nce. At tlm time of the offt’avp, in 1920 and 1921, nditions were abnormal. The managing directors wore absent, and had no knowledge <»f the offences. The conqiany’s managers followed tlm commercial system. which evidently did not contor.r. to the La-ad and Income 'fax Act. FORGER'S EASY PREY. DUNEDIN. June 19. At the Snnreme Court, (’live Argyle Wood, for forgery, three charges, was sentenced to one yi'ar’s imprisonment on each charge, c’lmulative. Prisoner had already been sentenced for a similar offence in the north. He yas described as an expert in handwriting. .Tinb-e Sim said that this was another illustration of why such offences were being committed, by reason ot trnde'Sneoulp cashing bm cheovs f r : ’'"-o--v-inp-prc Hi* could not sym. with them. THEFT SENTENCES. DUNEDIN - . Juno 1!> \! the Supreme Court John Miluo, for breaking, entering and theft, ro_ ce : \od three rears in gaol or Borstal inv< G nJ ion. Calib Frederick Robert McDonald. D. Afcßath. Frank Abbott McDonald and AVilliam Russell T°mb. brp-ikino-. entering and theft. were each rdaced on probation for three WIDOWS CT.ATM FROM HUSBAND’S CHURCH BEQUEST. AUCKLAND, June 19 Two hundred nonnds gifted to tin* n’lqt-d Church of .Tesns Christ of He* lifter d ,; v Saints under a will, n-u, /ydorod bv Hie Chief Justice f o be given to Floroneo Mnrv Snii h. i.-Mo- thp testator, for maintonTpsfator and his wife had lived opart before died in 1924. She sunnortod herself until she met with on Occident being now in poor health. Tn addition to the £260 mentioned, h's Honor ordered £lO6 additional, t'o be paid to the widow. This, with thp enctq. to be taken from the gift <-f £OR3 nmdn bv the testator to his -hihlri-n before he died. OVER, £1.400 DAMAGES. AGAINST TWO - ' TOKTSTS. OVER. AN INEVITABLE COLLI SIGN. ('HRLSTCHURCHfi Juno 19. After a hearing lastjug two davs. Martha Jane Hall was awarded 15s damages. Hazel Dashwood S-m £4OO. Wilfrid Joseph Sim .£126 U*-. am! William Smith Mac Gibbon £'<9---106, against, Tracy Gough and ( bar 1 -s David Gough for injuries received in a motor collision on a hill on a country road in November last. It was contended they were on the wrong side of the roa<l. and that, seeing that a collision was inevitable, they preferred a head-on crash to going on the outside of the road aiL a dangerous corner. As the result of the collision, Mrs Hil’ been permanently incapacitated 1 ’<»••■ ' any form of activity, and Mrs Sim was disfigured, while Joseph S.m lost an eyebrow. Mac Gibbon also claimed for damages to his car.