FRAUD ON COMPANY
ELECTRIC LAMPS OBTAINED MAN TO BE SENTENCED [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Thursday A verdict of guilty on all counts was returned by the jury to-day in the case of Isaiah Joseph Hills, an electrician, aged 31, who appeared on three charges of obtaining by false pretences electric lamps from the British General Electric Company, Limited, and one charge of obtaining from the same firm credit by fraud to the extent of £149. The charges were that Hills represented to the chief accountant of the company that he had a contract with a big oil company for the maintenance of petrol pumps in a territory extending from the Far North to Upper Ilutt, and Paekakariki, that he was expecting similar contracts from other oil companies, and that he owned a house in which he was living. By this means, it was alleged that he obtained 844 lamps, which ho sold for less than purchase price. Sentence was deferred.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21253, 5 August 1932, Page 14
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161FRAUD ON COMPANY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21253, 5 August 1932, Page 14
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