PROSECUTIONS AT CHRISTCHURCH.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12767, 8 February 1910, Page 4

PROSECUTIONS AT CHRISTCHURCH.

Christchurch, Feb. 7. An information has been laid hy the Income • Tax Department against the Hon. G. J. Smith, George Bowron and William Bowron, trading as Bowron Bros., for haviug made wilfully false returns under the Land and Income Tax Assessment Act for the purpose of evading the duty properly payable under the Act. A very large sum is involved; Defendants are liable, on conviction, to treble duty and a fine of £100. The case will oome on for hearing at the Magistrate's Court next Tuesday.