SALESMAN APPEALS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 212, 23 September 1937, Page 9

SALESMAN APPEALS

-I'ress Aasociation.)

— — — Conviction for Hawking Shares LEGAL ARGUMENT HEARD

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WELLINGTON, Last Night. Argumcnt as to the exact meaning of the tei;m "house to house" was heard in the Full Court in the case of Harold Calvert, of Wellington, share salesman, versus John Albert Colvin Maekenzie, of Riverton, solicitor. Calvert was convicted at Invercargill in 3930 on inforination charging that in J.uly and August, 1935, at Riverton and clsewhere he went from house tio house biTeriug shares .for subscription in the McArthur Trust, Ltd., to certain namcd debenture-holders in the lnvestment Executive Trust. He was fined £200 and costs. A general appeal was made from the conviction, and the case was eventually referred to the Full Court. Counsel for the appellant submitted that going from house to house meant indiscriminate visiting of one hoiise after another. He said every one of the eight person s named in the charge was the holder of one or more lnvestment Executive Trust debentures and that at the time charged in the information each of the eight persons had been visited liy Calvert m connection with these debentures and most of them in connection with other business as well. . He also eontended that Calvert visited these persons solely because they were debenture-holders in the lnvestment Executive Trust and for the purpose of "getting the debenture-holders to consoiidate their holdings in a concern in which they were all interested.