ALLEGED FRAUD
CONSPIRACY CASE HEARING IN WELLINGTON. (By Telegraph—Press .Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. At today's hearing in the Supremo Court, of lhe case in which Harvey Maitland Chrystall and Gordon Percy Aston are accused of conspiring by deceit to defraud the former secretary of the New Zealand Racing Conference, Hartley Roy Sellers, of more than £6,000. and are indicted on six other associated charges, a witness. A. C. Jessep, said that on March 5. 1938. Chrystall said there was no written agreement between himself and Sellers or between Aston and Sellers. Chrystall also said, quite definitely, that they had been conducting experiments at Nelson for some time.
Ei-nest Palliser, an estate agent, said ho was one of Sellers’s frends and had lent Sellers sums totalling £5OO. Chrystall had given a fairly clear statement of the patent and indicated that it had been sold to lhe Admiralty for £280.000. The inventors name was given as Mr X. The case is proceeding.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 May 1940, Page 6
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160ALLEGED FRAUD Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 May 1940, Page 6
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