FALSE CREAM TESTS
IMPKISOX3IENT AM) Fl?xi:S. Per Press Association. Palmerston North. May s. At the Supreme Court, Henry Simpson, Arthur Melvin Taylor. .Otto Kreegher, and Richard Gavigan appeared for sentence having plead•ed guilty yesterday to charges of ! conspiracy to defraud the Chc-lton- ' ham. Dairy Company by furnishing false cream tests. In sentencing Simpson to six months' gaol, His Honor said 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 dat-i od from November, but took the view | that they had been going on for a longer period. The sentence would j not lie heavy, as it wa s ths prise:: ■ er's first lapse. Addressing the other accused, His Honor said the ends of justice would be served by fines. Kreegher and Taylor were each lined £IOO, payable on August 1, in default eight months' in gaol. Gavigan was lined £SO, in default four months in gaol.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXII, Issue 60, 8 May 1924, Page 8
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161FALSE CREAM TESTS Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXII, Issue 60, 8 May 1924, Page 8
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