FALSE PRETENCES.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19894, 25 May 1936, Page 5

FALSE PRETENCES.

AGENT couwonn. i ‘ PURCHASE PRICE OF SHARES. ‘ .. i ‘ NAPILR, Saturday. i Hans Peter Morrison, agent. of Auckland. who was found guilty of obtaining money by false pretenees, was fined £5 and ordered to [my £54 185, the costs of the proceedings, within six months. in the Supreme Court to—day. lie had been charged with obtaining from Archibald Leonard Anderson a sum of £SO, and a further £l5O in promissory notes, purporting to be the purchase price of shares in the Tangnrakau Coal Mining Company. by falsely representing that William linmitellow \\‘itfi chairman of directors ut‘ the company. (tounsel for .\ioriensou, .\lr Prender—,L'usi, said accused hmi never intended that Anderson should lose his money :unl had since returned it. Anderson had only rommuulrnlcrl with the police when hr- wns unable to find accused. \lnrlnnsou thought. he could promote the new company and the shares sold “err in in! his own shares in it. Counsel :iskcd that nrohniion be granted. as .\inrtousetL who had been 43 years in .\‘r\\' Zenland had never before nmwnrnd in (lourt. ills llonour said he intended to treat inmusml as n tirst offender and would quit ~~eutl him in gun]. Six monthS' nmrisonmrut would be given if the. rush \\rrc uni pnitli liminsel said tho money \\ouhi he paid within a \\'K‘Cli.