FALSE PRETENCES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 188, 26 August 1937, Page 8

FALSE PRETENCES

-Press Aseociation.

Supplies oi Iron and Nails Obtained FORMER SECRETARY CHARGED

By Telegraph-

WELLINGTON, Last Night. Frederick Walter McClennan, aged 34, charged with obtaining galvanised iron and nails valued at £80 12/1 "by means of a false pretence, was committed by Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., to the Supreme Court for sentence. Bait was fixed at £100, and ' accused waa ordered to report to the detective office . twice daily. Joseph Henry Wagg, secretary of Briscoe, E. W. Mllls and Co., Ltd., said that accused called at his' office on August 7 and stated that he wa secretary of the New Zealand Institute of Automobile Engjneers, and that the institute proposed to build a hangar at Paraparaumu for tho purpbso of a training ground for engineers, and s qnantity of galvanised iron and ilails was required. Witness xeferred accused to the manager, as a Tesult of which iron and leadhead nails, to the value namcd, were supplied. Accused took possessioji and had the material taken to a garage. He was supplied because of his representations that ha • had authority from the institute. L. B. McKenzie Lynd-Mitchell, president of the institute, said that for three months prior to August 12 ae? cused was secretary to the institute. It was never intended by the institute to erect a hangar at Paraparaumu, and accused had no authority to make ropresentations to any such effect. Other evidence dealt with the disposal of iTon, and a detective said that, when questioned, accused said: "The insti-f tute did not tell you, I suppose, that they owed me £150 for wages. I had to ge the money somehow, as .they did not pay me." "When bail was being discussed the prosecution said that, when accused heard that "inquixies were being instituted, he left Wellington and was arrested at Collingwood,