FRAUD CHARGES
A COMPANY DIRECTOR ' A.CCKLAND TRIAL PROCEEDING I Per Press Association. 1 AUCKLAND, July 31. The trial of James Milward Houston, company director, 4-1, on eight charges of fraudulently failing to account for money, two charges of theft and one of forgery, was commenced * Supreme Court. Jt was alleged that on various dates between October 5, 1928. and February 11, 1933, accused omitted to account for £1755 which he had received on behalf of John Burns and Company Limited, and that ou April 20, J 932, and March 3.1, 1933, he stole sums totalling £127, the property of Hobart Berkel (N.Z.) Limited. Jt was further alleged that accused forged a stock sheet purporting to be a correct list of stocks in the possession of Hobart Berkel (N.Z.) Limited as at March 31, 1932, and that knowing it to be false he caused John Burns and Company to act upon it as if it were genuine. Evidence was heard ou (be lines of that in the Police Court recently. Twenty-two of 29 witnesses for the Grown had been beard when the ease
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 179, 1 August 1933, Page 6
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182FRAUD CHARGES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 179, 1 August 1933, Page 6
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