COURT OF APPEAL.
[Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, July 15. The Appeal Court sat this morning to hear an application by the Wellington District Law Society for an order to strike John G. 0. Stevens, of Otaki, off the roll of solicitors, upon tho ground of unprofessional conduct in rospect of the followingOn October 24, 1910, while acting ostensibly for a Native woman, but really in tho interests of one S. East, lie applied to the Public Trustee for a loan to the Native of £IOOO upon the security of certain land belonging to her, representing that the money was required for the purpose of improving the land. By means of such representation Stevens induced tho Trustee to grant the loan, whereas tho money was intended for the purchase of a share in an invention for indicating the position of sunken vessels, in which Stevens and others were interested. It was also alleged that Stevens induced tho Native to pay £BOO out of tho loan for a share in the patent. The case is proceeding.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15982, 16 July 1912, Page 7
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174COURT OF APPEAL. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15982, 16 July 1912, Page 7
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