FAILURE TO ACCOUNT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 21 August 1933, Page 5

FAILURE TO ACCOUNT

ORDERS ON COMMISSION (By Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. Ezekiel John Read, aged 51 years, a salesman, was sentenced by Mr Stilwell, S.M., to three months’ imprisonment for failing to account to Henry Bray for £5 9s 3d, and was convicted and discharged on three charges of obtaining £1 3s 6cl by false pretences. The police said accused was employed by . Bray to collect orders for wood, coal and coke on a commission basis, but in the case of several orders kept the money, although Bray delivered the coal. On two other occasions lie collected money for wood and coal, but did not give the orders to anyone, and in one case he received 16s from a woman and gave an order, but not the money, to another coalman, who took the coal away again when told it had been paid for beforehand. At the time he took three orders which were not fulfilled Read was not connected with Bray or any other coal merchant.