The Boulder Deep Levels

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1160, 2 December 1904, Page 3

The Boulder Deep Levels

Slartliiiij Report Rougb on Chairman of Directors Press Asfiooiatiou.—Copja-ight. FEivrn, this day. The Bouldor Doop Levels Commission report animadvoits on the lax supervision over the assay sauiplos and incorrectness ot the assays, either caused by salting or the falsification of tho books. The commissioners, commenting on share transactions consequent on the nllcgrd rich discovery, stato thatFnink Gardner, Chairman of Directors, hold 170.000 out of the 230,000 shares issued, and that (ho bnlance wore apparently held in London by sovoral ruino iflicials, Mr Harold Vickcrs, who made all tho assays from tho deep levels ol tho mine, had also dealt in shares, Tho report, licensed Vickers of having deliberately perjured himself in giving evidene befoio tho Cuninissio". Vickers gave infurinatiun in reference lo tho nssoy io Fianci Eurp smTid'tii to ffl.ict ft con-id riliio •diiiro of (he ilcul on their nwn nccouni.. The report conclude--: ''Although, p»r* Imps, tho modus operandi of the frauds has not been disclosed, ilu- commissioners irnst that sufficient Ims been brought to light concerning tho practices obtained in tho Boulder Dwtp Levels to indica'o how such occurrence may to some extent be guarded against in future."