CHARGES OF FRAUD

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22422, 17 November 1934, Page 18

CHARGES OF FRAUD

ORDERS FOR FLOODLIGHTS CASE ADJOURNED TILL MONDAY.(Pee United Pbess Association) WELLINGTON, November 16. The hearing of the charges of fraud alleged against C. E. Tickers pad ,E. M, Gilmour in connection with' activities relating to the; Craftsman;: Manufacturing Company was continued ' to-day. A statement that the Railways Department never had negotiations with - the Craftsman Company and that tha company’s train lamps had never been tried on the railways was made by. Percy Roy Angus, locomotive superintendent of the New Zealand Railways. A harbour board electrician said ho.; inspected the company’s floodlight •lu .. 1930 and decided that they were unsuit- ... able. 1 . ■ : George Lauchlan, assistant general. - manager of the Wellington electricity ;' department, said he inspected . th9 r Craftsman lights in 1930, but the obuhr • cil did not (negotiate with the company = for lights. Similar evidence was given by the assistant mechanical engineer Of The - , tramways department, and the secretary of the Wellington Speedways, Ltd., sde-:?, nied that his company ever did business. with the Craftsman Company.' ' r! The case was then adjourned till. * Monday. , - 1 ;