FRAUD ALLEGED
SALESMAN CHARGED WITH £557 THEFT MAORI’S INDEBTEDNESS Press Association NAPIER, Thursday. The alleged failure of Peter Francis Wilkie, while acting as motor-truck salesman for Bate and Bell, Limited, Napier, to account for portion of the proceeds of the sale of posts and strainers which, allegedly, should have gone to reduce the indebtedness of a Maori client of the firm, resulted in Wilkie being charged in the Supreme Court today with the theft of £557 10s. The charge against Wilkie, for whom Mr. IT. F. O’Leary, Wellington, appeared, was that on or about July 1, 1928, at Oruanui, and on various dates between July 1, 1928, and February 27, 1929, he received from Pohipi Chase 9,647 posts and 130 strainers, of a total value of £837 10s, on terms requiring him to account for their proceeds to his employers, and fraudulently omitted to account for £557 10s of that amount. Chase’s indebtedness to Bate and Bell, Limited, was on account of a motor-lorry purchase. The evidence for the prosecution occupied the whole of the day. The evidence for the defence will be heard tomorrow, following which there are several other charges of a similar nature to be preferred against Wilkie.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 743, 16 August 1929, Page 1
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201FRAUD ALLEGED Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 743, 16 August 1929, Page 1
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