TEMPTED TO OWE
FRAUDULENT TRADER SENT TO GAOL Press Association CHRISTCHURCH. Tuesday. The ease with which business people give • credit was commented on in the Supreme Court to-day when John Bullars McKenzie came up for sentence for obtaining credit by fraud. Counsel described it as “extreme simplicity,” stating that temptation was put in his way by lax trading, especially in petrol. He obtained petrol cheap and sold it to E. P. Wright at a price that should have given the man who bought it an indication that something was wrong. McKenzie bought 3,000 cases and he sold them at from 8s to 10s a case. He traded in the same way with galvanised iron and sugar. Wright evidently had given very little consideration to the transaction. McKenzie was sentenced to three years’ reformative detention.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 487, 17 October 1928, Page 13
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134TEMPTED TO OWE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 487, 17 October 1928, Page 13
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