CASE UNDER THE FRIENDLY SOCIETIES ACT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7302, 14 April 1885, Page 5

CASE UNDER THE FRIENDLY SOCIETIES ACT.

[BY TELEGRAPH—PBK33 ASSOCIATION.] Christchurch, Monday. Ernkst Rowlamd Davis, alias Erneat A. E. Beade, alias O. Gf. Olliver, waa committed for trial to-day tinder section 11 of the Friendly Societies Act, 1882, charged with having given to one James Parish, at TemEleton, a copy of the roles of the Rational ick and Burial Association, which he represented wan a registered friendly society, whereas no such society was registered under the Act in October last The accused has been agent in Dunedin for the Rational Sick and Burial Association. He then went 1)y the name of Reade. He appears to have giiven considerable dissfctisfastiosa, and left for Canterbury, taking the name of Davis." Last "month, "alter his connection with the " Rational" ceased, he started a ''National" Sick and Burial Association on his account. Fe gave out that he was a medical man, and examined those persons whom he induced to join the new eociety. He collected the subscriptions and could not explaim to the subscribers satisfactorily what had become of the money, fie carried on this sort of thing in the Templeton district for about a month before suspicions were aroused, and then Parish gave information to the police. In defence Davis urged that lie had acted in a bona fide manner, though he denied that he had represented that the society was registered. There is another similar charge pending against him.