DIRECTOR ON TRIAL.
CHARGES' OF FRAUD & THEFT. AUCKLAND, July 31. The trial of James Milward Houston, a company director, 44, on eight charges of fraudulently failing to acmoney, two charges of theft and one of forgery was commenced in the Supreme Court. It was alleged that on various dates between October 5, 1928, and February 1R 1933', the accused omitted to account for £1755, which he had received on behalf of John Burns and Company, Limited, and that on April 20, 1932, and March 31, 1933, he stole sums totalling £127, the property of Hobart Berkel (N.Z.), Limited. It was further alleged that the accused forged a stock sheet purporting to be the correct list of stocks in possession of Hobart Berkel (N.Z.) Limited as at March 31, 1932, and that knowing it be false, ho caused John Burns and Company Limited to act upon it as if it were genuine. Evidence was heard on the lines of that in the Police Court.recently. Twenty-two of the twenty-nine witnesses for the Crown were heard when the case was adjourned.—‘(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 1 August 1933, Page 5
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