FRAUD CHARGES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 283, 13 November 1936, Page 5

FRAUD CHARGES

- Motor-Car Skill Test Competition (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Nov. 13. Evidence by witnesses of the test in a Lower Hutt motor garage, by the winner of tbe competition, and by a Treasury inspector, who had investigated the position, was called by. the prosecution yesterday in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, jn the case in whiob three men are charged with conspiracy to defraud arising from a motor-car skill test competition. The competition offered a prize of a. motorcar to the person correctly estimating how long the engine would run on 18 gallons of benzine with the back wheels jacked up. • Harold Fairchild Pobar, agent, Bertram Egley, company secretary, and Hannath Noel Blake Marshal], company director, are charged with conspiring with each other between July 10, 1935, and March 31 1936, to defraud such persons as should be induced to purchase tickets in.a skill test competition by falsely representing that the car was available as a prize, without disclosing the fact that it was subject to an instrument by. way of security securing the principal sum of £450, and falsely representing that the car was new and was being kept sealed. Four charges of obtaining gums of money by the same false pretence were also laid. The hearing opened on Wednesday, and at the adjournment 'last evening 24 witnesses had been called, When the court resumes to-day the evidence of the final witness, Detective W. IlMurray, will be heard, followed by the addresses of counsel.