A COMPANY’S AFFAIRS.
CHARGE AGAINST SECRETARY, MISREPRESENTATION ALEEOTD, | By Telegraph—Press Association. Napier, Last Night. The Supreme Court was occupied all day and until 10.10 to-night in hearing; a civil case in which the Coromandel Granite Company claimed £706 from John William Findlay, public accountant. The sum claimed was advanced as a result of alleged misrepresentation of the state of the company’s accounts by defendant when he was secretary. > The defendant showed a profit on the whole of the company’s workings (Napier e Auckland and Wanganui) of £216 7s 111* There was, according to his statement, a profit of £2OOO in Napier and in view of which the directors advanced bonuses to the works manager at Napier and defendant. A refund of claimed, also the return of deft lant’B| salary. The plaintiff company also ate leged that Findlay had failed to keeg, proper books and charged him wftH negligence. The auditor who examined( the accounts put the company’s lots aC £5343 15s 3d. The case for the defence has not yes been presented.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 June 1921, Page 5
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172A COMPANY’S AFFAIRS. Taranaki Daily News, 17 June 1921, Page 5
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