WAS NOT ENTITLED TO SELL FURNITURE

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18546, 21 August 1928, Page 11

WAS NOT ENTITLED TO SELL FURNITURE

LABOURER GUILTY OF FALSE PRETENCES. Reginald Frederick Meyer, ageej. thirty-one, a labourer, appeared in the Magistrate's Court this morning on a charge of obtaining the sum of £l4 7s 6d by false pretences. Accused, who was not represented by counsel, pleaded guilty. Chief-Detective J. Carroll said that accused sold his furniture, while it was under a bill of sale to the Valuation Department, at H. C. Smith's auction rooms. The Valuation Department had claimed the furniture from Smith, who suffered to the extent of £l4 7s 6d, the amount for which the furniture was

sold. Meyer had been wrong in representing to Smith that the furniture was his. If he had told Smith that the furniture was under a bill of sale, the furniture could not have been sold. Meyer had sold the furniture under the name of his brother-in-law, who said that he had not authorised Meyer to do so. Accused was at present serving a sentence of six months’ imprisonment for maintenance, default. He had five children.

“ I will not give you any more gaol,” said. Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., in sentencing Meyer to three months’ imprisonment, to be concurrent with his present sentence.

An application by accused for the suppression of his name was refused.