SECRET COMMISSIONS ACT.
A NEW TRIAL ORDERED. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, February 19. After a full retirement the jury was unable to come to an agreement this evening in the cff.se in the Supreme Court against Laery and Co., Ltd., fruit auctioneers, Wellington, charged on five counts with failing to*diselose pecuniary interest in a contract, and one count of rendering false sales accounts to the Department of External Affairs in connection with the disposal of Samoan bananas. A new trial for the May session of the court was ordered. The Chief Justice (Mr Justice Myers) presided.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21265, 20 February 1931, Page 10
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