CREDIT BY FRAUD
“EXTREME SIMPLICITY.” COMMENT IN COURT. (Per United Press Association.) Christchurch, October 16. The case with which business people give credit was commented on in the Supreme Court to-day when John Bullars McKenzie came up for sentence for obtaining credit by fraud. Counsel described it as “extreme simplicity” stating that the temptation was put in his way by the lax trading, especially in petrol. He obtained petrol cheap and sold it to E. P. Wright at a price that should have given the man who bought it an indication. McKenzie bought 3000 cases and he sold it at 8/- to 10/- a case. He traded in the same way with galvanized iron and sugar. Wright evidently had given very little consideration to the transaction. McKenzie was sentenced to three years reformative.
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Southland Times, Issue 20618, 17 October 1928, Page 10
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133CREDIT BY FRAUD Southland Times, Issue 20618, 17 October 1928, Page 10
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