GAOL SENTENCE
" r; ;\y. • THEFTS BY- A COLLECTOR
(Per Press Association—Copyright).
WELLINGTON, August 21 . r
Ezekiel John Read, aged’ol^'salesman, was sentenced by -’Mr Stillwell, S.M., to three months’ imprisonment for failing to account to 'Henry -Bray for £5 9s 3d, and was convicted’ 1 a n cl discharged on three charges of obtaining £1 3s 6d >-.by:. false -pretences. The police said ho was employed by Bray to collect orders for - wood; and coal on a commission ..basis,' but ip the case of several orders,’ he-kept the money, although - Bfayydelivered ■ tho coal. - v.'..-
On two other occasions >Ke' j: collected the money- for w’ood'iand toal;- butoffie did not give the orders, to; anyone, and ' 'ip one. case he • received . 16s; ; from a 'woman and gave the order; • but not the money,, to another coal..merchant, who took the coal ; away 'again when told it had been paid; Beforehand. At that time, he ,t^ok : >%^- l oi^ers-,wliiclt. j . were not fulfilled.,, Read was nqt coni. ; nected with Bray, oY’any other- co'al merchant. "U'FUU-,'
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1933, Page 5
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