ALLEGED THEFT

Wairarapa Daily Times, 1 August 1933, Page 5

ALLEGED THEFT

DIRECTOR ON TRIAL. AUCKLAND, Monday. The trial of James Milward Houston, a company director, 44, on eight charges of fraudulently failing to account for money, two charges of theft, and one of forgery, was commenced in the Supreme Court. It was alleged that on various dates between sth October, 1928, and lltli February, 1933, the accused omitted to account for £1755, which he had received on behalf of John Burns and Company, Limited, and that on 20tli April, 1932, and 31st March, 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 31st March, 1932, and that knowing it to be false, he 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 S.M. Court recently. Twen-ty-two of the twenty-nine witnesses for the Crown Were heard when the case was adjourned—(P.A.)