TWO MEN SENTENCED FOR FRAUDS ON EGG SUBSIDY
P.A. TIMARU, October 13. Thomas Ewart Gill, aged 55, former proprietor of the Timaru Central Egg Floor, was sentenced to a year s reformative detention, and Reginald Tong, aged 44, an accountant, of Christchurch, was sentenced to two years’ reformative detention on a charge of conspiring with each other by deceit, to defraud the New Zealand Government of £lB6l 3s 4d, between December 1, 1946, and July 3, 1948. The sentence was passed by Mr Justice Fleming in the Supreme Court at Timaru to-day. Mr C. S. Thomas (Christchurch), who represented Gill, and Mr A. C. Brassington (Christchurch) who represented Tong, entered a plea of guilty on Monday to an allegation of falsifying the records of the Timaru Central Egg Floor, to gain four pence a dozen subsidy on 112,000 dozen eggs that did not exist, and so defraud the Government.
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Grey River Argus, 14 October 1948, Page 5
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