USE OF ASSUMED NAME

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 11 March 1943, Page 4

USE OF ASSUMED NAME

BUSINESS OF TOY-MAKERS Wanganui, Mar. lo “I agree with counsel that the purpose of the Act is to prevent a person from concealing his identity if he is of enemy origin or possibly evading’ military service; in the present case they were purely technical offences,” said Mr J. H. Salmon, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court at Wanganui, when Spencer Charles Francis Hodson admitted two charges of using a name other than the one he was known by at the date of the Change of Name Emergency Regulations, 1939. He was fined £1 on each charge. Detective-Sergeant Robertson * said defendant was in partnership with another man when they decided to launch out on correspondence courses for the making of toys. This undertaking went under the name of McMasters Toy Supoly and defendant signed correspondence as "Neil McMasters.” At the time of Detective-Sergeant Murray’s visit he communicated with his solicitor and was told that he must discontinue the use of this name.

“This is merely a technical offence. All sorts of businesses are run under assumed or fictitious names,” said Mr Tizard, for the defence. He submitted also that in the present case the name “McMasters” was used merely for the purposes of building up goodwill. If defendant. had adopted the simple process of writing “P.P.” and his own signature after the name “Neil McMasters.” he could not have been charged