MILITARY CLOTHING CASE.

North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13659, 30 August 1916, Page 1

MILITARY CLOTHING CASE.

CHARGE AGAINST A ■ ■ MANUFACTURER, !'. (Per Press Association.) . WELLINGTON, Augusl: 28. .j'The ease against Abraham Levy, clothing manufacturer, charged with wilfully breaking his contract to supply 'tjiilitai'v uniform?, was partly heard in tme Magistrate's Court this'afternoon. "! The Crown Prosecutor, in outlining "the case, said the evidence would show pat accused used cotton instead of linen thread as specified in the conifiii't. Levy must have known, bv gipervising hi s workshops, that cotton Rircmi' was being used. A total of u'3,303 garments had been supplied bv Levy, viz., 1!),!)04 tunics, 11,4(1!) trousers. 'Mo pantaloons, and l,2,o!)(i grcat.'coats. That was up to tin- ,end of June. Out of these :18-I!I tunics, 207(1 '.pairs of • trousers, 2024 pantaloons, and 'ICSO great coats, had been returned, a total of 11,132.

Evidcuee was g-ivuu liy (lie clerk-in-charge of the Mmiilions Department •that Levy had agreed tn the spoeifiwt.tions, ami luiil later written to the /Minister in charge of munitions slating ■that lie had used cotton thread instead of linen thread because lie found it more .serviceable, also because there '.had been great ilillirulty in sci-uriiiy continuous supplies, A letter from Professor Scott, who had tested the two materials, was put in, stating that linen thread was better for the purposes for which it was intended. ' WELLINGTON, August 28. ; A hint was droppotd during the proceedings against Abraham Levy to-ilav '.that another prosecution co'uceruiii'g .'Army contracts is pedhig.