SALE TRANSACTIONS.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19891, 21 May 1936, Page 9

SALE TRANSACTIONS.

MISREPRIBENTATION CHARGE.

MORTENSEN BEFORE COURT.

FOUND GUILTY ON ONE CIOUN'I'.

(By Telegraph—Press Asaoclnllon.)

NAPIER, Wednesday

A charge of obtaining from Archibald Leonard Anderson £SO. and a runner £iso in promissory notes. yum-porting in be me purchase price of shares in the ’l‘angurukau Goal Minins Company. by falsely representing that William Lioodl‘eiiow was chairman of direclm's or the rompany. was preferred against Hans Peter Morten—.wn, M Aucixiund. in tile Supreme unuri at Napier tu—tiay, before Mr Ju>~ Live lived.

Accused was further charged that (1) by the same raise protencc, he obtained from Noiis Niimiaison £l3 in cash and promissory notes amounting to £llO, for part payment of I'oo shares in the ‘l‘ansarakan (Inai .\lining ijnpany: \L‘) that. from the same persun. by the same t‘aise pretence. he obtained “0. being transt'ur fee for 300 shares; nnd (ii) that. he attemptmi to uhimn from inxn Lumi slot) for shares in the Tangarakau uoai .\iinmg Company by taisviy representing that \\'iiiiam limuirviiuw “as chairman of dirvrturs illltl Xciis Nikoiaisun was a Liirvctnr. Evidence \\'as given by witnesses to the “foot that llit‘)‘ hati liven induced to take Shill't‘,‘ in tin‘ 'i‘angaraitnu (241.11 Mining timnpany nn nrvusmi's repromutation that, Mr William tiomit‘t-iluw was chairman ut‘ tiirn-rturs. 'i‘ho cnm~ puny had nvwr prmlut'mi rm] and was wound up li)‘ N'llt‘t‘ of the Supreme Court in August last year. Tht‘ (it-pmiiiuns of Mr l‘nnuit’niinw wt‘l‘t‘ suinniiivti. 'l'hvm- hidlt‘tl that nll'< cust‘d had no aulhurity in ust- his name in «mnnv'riiun \\iih iiu- t-imiml‘m. gulp ul' thv t'nlnpany. i\i‘trr an :Ih“me of .1” itnln‘ and .I<h.tii' Hi" jury found acruu'tl guziiy uh thu' th'si chm‘KL' and nut xuili) 1m thv rt-maining three. St‘ntt‘nrv- \\.|s uit't'n‘l't‘ctt. —_