“HOUSE-TO-HOUSE”

Grey River Argus, 23 September 1937, Page 5

“HOUSE-TO-HOUSE”

Share Salesman APPEALS against conviction. LPer Press Association]. WELLINGTON, September 22. Argument as to the exact meaning of the term “house-to-house” was heard in the Full Court to-day in a case, Harold Calvert, of Wellington, share salesman, versus John Albert Colin MacKenzie, of Riverton, solicitor. Calvert was convicted at Invercargill in 1936, on an information charging that, in July and August, 1935, at Riverton and elsewhere, he went from house-to-house offering shares for subscription in the McArthur Trust Ltd., to certain members of the public, namely, certain named debenture holders in the Investment Executive Trust. He was fined two hundred pounds and costs. A general appeal was made from the conviction, and the case eventually was referred to the Full Court. Counsel for the appelant submitted that going from house to house meant the indiscriminate visiting of one house after another. He said that every one of the eight persons named in the charge was the holder of one or more Investment Executive Trust debentures, and, at the time charged in the information, each of the eight persons had been visited by Calvert in connection with these debentures, and most of them in connection with other business as well. He also contended that Calvert visited these persons solely because they were debenture holders in the Investment Executive Trust, and for the purpose of getting the debenture holders to consolidate their holdings in a concern in which they were all interested. The case was adjourned.