CLAIM FOR CAR OF MISSING COMMUNIST
P.A. WELLINGTON, October 12. A five-seater sedan car, abandoned at Piha on April 23, by Walter Ashton, Communist Party and union secretary, was the subject of an application by the police in the Magistrate’s Court to-day for determination of title. There were two claimants, Alfred Charles Ashton, farmer, of Matangi, and Harold Stanislaus Gallagher, present secretary of the Auckland Trades Council.
The police said it was established that Walter Ashton had failed to account for £2,144 of the Trades Council and Glassworkers’ Union funds. Ashton’s brother, who paid the last instalment of £35, claimed the vehicle on behalf of relatives. After a discussion between the parties, the Magistrate, Mr. J. H. Luxford, made an order for the sale of the car and the lodgment of the money with the Public Trustee, less tlie amount paid by Ashton’s brother
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Grey River Argus, 13 October 1948, Page 7
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