SOLD MORTGAGED LAUNCH
EX-FISHERMAN’S FRAUD Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. On a charge of false pretences, Arthur Smith, licensee of the Royal Hotel, Lyttelton, was found guilty in tho Supteme Court today. He was remanded until Friday for sentence. Smith was formerly a fisherman ano the owner of a launch on which he had borrowed £ 300 from the Repatriation Department He later so.d th launch to James Shears for £ 300, but without telling Shears that it was mortgaged, and without saying that h (Smith) had no right to. sell it. rillwas the basis of the charge. , , Smitli had also stated that he haa leased the launch to one Anderson, ana that it had been taken by Andeison to Wellington, and that Anderson In 'written to him that the iaunch "as < total loss, having been burr Jff* , tl t The Crown Prosecutor alleged that ment of ten minutes*
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 966, 8 May 1930, Page 1
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