HARNESSING THE TIDES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18495, 4 September 1923, Page 8

HARNESSING THE TIDES.

PROMOTER IN TROUBLE.

ALLEGED FALSE PRETENCES

fax TELEGRAPH.-— ASSOCIATION.] PALMERSTON NORTH, Monday.

In the Supreme Court to-day Joseph Harvey Cornish was . charged on six counts with false pretences. It was alleged that accused at Levin, with intent to defraud, obtained i from Jabez Bobbington £5 by falsely representing that a.solicitor of Otaki had put in £500 for the purchase of 100 shares in an invention of accused for utilising the rise and fall of the swell of the sea. .Other offences were alleged to have been committed at Levin and Shannon. -

The Crown-Prosecutor stated that accused claimed to have discovered inn invention for utilising the rise and fall of the swell of ihe sea. The idea involved was a very old one, and many astute minds in the scientific world had endeavoured to develop it for mechanical , purpose. Accused claimed that, lip had provisional protection for an invention, and be had been selling shares in the invention for three months prior to arretit. He disposed of 32 shares of £5 each, rind so had done fairly well. The onus was on the Crown to prove that the money was obtained by false pretences. .-Accused had no working model as .proof of the invention, his /whole stock-in-trade being a prospectus."' '.:.'..■.:<"'-'; v^--;. I ''. -•: '■-';. / The-case has not concluded. •;' -e*