AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1930, Page 5

AMERICAN ITEMS

CONSPIRACY CHARGES

HEAVY FINES INFLICTED

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(Received this day at 10.30 a.m.) VANCOUVER, W t. 29. A Toronto message states, that pleiadtiig:?guilty in the criminal court to charges of • bucketing, E. V . G. Holloway was fined two hundred thousand dollars and his partner, Harvey Mills, was fined fifty thousand. | The brokerage firm of Holloway Mills Company disbanded in January, following numerous charges of bucketing and conspiracy to defraud the public. CANADA WHEAT POOL. VANCOUVER, October 29. • Edmonton, Alberto willi not lose one cent ultimately, even though the banks may have to call upon the Prairie Government’s to make good their wheat guarantees, states Premier Brownlee, He regards the. amount at stake as . speculative, but' liable ves the 10,000,000 dollars es-timate-of the Manitoba Premier is too low. The Governments are not being pressed to meet their guarantees yet. The Winnipeg “Tribune” states the Manitoba pool has ample assets to pay whatever the Government may have to meet on guarantees, all the assets being pledged when the guarantees were arranged. The last financial statement of the Manitoba pool showed 4,334,425 dollars assets.