FRAUD CHARGES
HEARING ADJOURNED By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, November 16. The hearing of the fraud charges alleged against C. E. Vickers and E. M. Gilmour, in connection with their activities relating to the Craftsman Manufacturing Company, was continued to-day. A statement that the Railway Department had never had negotiations with the Craftsman Company and that the company’s train lamps had never been tried on the railways was made by Percy Roy Angus, locomotive superintendent of the New Zealand Railways. The Harbour Board electrician said he inspected the company’s floodlight in 1930, and decided that they were unsuitable. George Lauchlan, assistant general manager of the Wellington Electricity Department, said he inspected the Craftsman lights in 1930, but the Council did not negotiate with the company for lights. Similar evidence was given by the assistant mechanical engineer of the Tramways Department. The secretary of Wellington Speedways Ltd. denied that his company ever did business with the Craftsman Company. The case was adjourned till Monday.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19959, 17 November 1934, Page 7
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162FRAUD CHARGES Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19959, 17 November 1934, Page 7
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