FRAUDS ON GOVERNMENT.
DOCK OFFICIALS' LAPSE. A and N.Z. LONDON, June 9. The manager. Eric Brotherton, and Walker, the assistant-manager, of the Immingham Dock Company, who with a timber merchant named Smith, and Brolherton's foreman. Cobley, were charged with having defrauded the Government in connection with the repair of J Government vessels, have been found guilty on three indictments. Cobley was I discharged, while Brotherton was sentenced to a year and eight months'. Walker to six months', and Smith to eight months' imprisonment.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16873, 11 June 1918, Page 5
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