CHATTELS TRANSFER ACT.
CHARGE AGAINST FARMER DISMISSED. CHRISTCHURCH, May 8. “ Responsible officers of the Crown should not take proceedings without sufficient reason and competent advice,” said the judge, in telling the jury that there was no evidence that John Blair, a farmer, and a returned soldier, had committed a breach o'f the Chattels Transfer Act. Blair was found not guilty, and discharged. The charge was that on January 24, 1927, at Dromore, near Ashburton, he sold without consent of the Advances Department, 36 lambs, a roller, and a set of harrows, valued at £56. A Lands Department official, crossexamined, said he had never known a returned soldier to read a bill of sale.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3870, 15 May 1928, Page 77
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113CHATTELS TRANSFER ACT. Otago Witness, Issue 3870, 15 May 1928, Page 77
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