LAND SALES
CHARGES AGAINST AGENT DEALS MADE WITHOUT LICENCE (Feb United Press Association) AUCKLAND, Sept. 13. Three charges of selling properties when not holding a land agent's licence were admitted by Edwin Sayes in the Police Court to-day. Senior Sergeant Joyce said that on March 31 the defendant started a business known as Reliance Business Sales, for which he did not require a licence. Later, he sold two houses and another property which required him to have a land agent's licence Counsel for the defendant said it was only dilatoriness on the defendant's part that he did not apply for a licence. When the matter was brought under his notice, he had applied and one had immediately been granted. The magistrate said (hat the important point was that the defendant had accepted deposits without being covered by the bond which a licenceholder would have provided. On one charge he would be" fined £2O. The two other charges were withdrawn.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24403, 14 September 1940, Page 12
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