CREAM TEST CASES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16425, 8 May 1924, Page 6

CREAM TEST CASES.

TWO ACQUITTALS

(Per Press Association.)

PALMERSTON K, last night

In the case Alfred Wright and Henry Simpson, charged with conspiracy to defraud a dairy company by faked cream tests, the jury found a verdict of not guilty, and both vreye discharged. Simpson, with three other fanners who admitted their guilt, will be sentenced in respect of these cases to-mor row.

THE SENTENCES

PALMERSTON N., this day

At the. Supreme Court Henry Simpson, Arthur Melvin Taylor, Otto Kreegher, and Richard Gavigan appeared for sentence, haxing pleaded guilty yesterday to charges of conspiracy to defraud the Cheltenham Dairy Company by furnishing false cream tests. _ ) In sentencing Simpson to six months gaol His Honor said that prisoner had been convicted of charges of fraud. His offence was a most serious one. He did not believe Simpson's statement that the offences dated from November, but took the view that they had been going on for a longer period. The sentence would not be heavy, as it was the prisoner's first lapse. Addressing the other accused His Honor said that the ends of justice would be by fines. Kreegher and Taylor were each fined £ICX), payable' on August Ist, in default eight months' imprisonment. Gavigan was lined £SO, in default four months' imprisonment.