SOLICITING ALMS.
A FRADULENT COLLECTOR. THREE MONTHS' HARD LABOUR. (By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.) PAEROA, Friday. In the Police Court to-day, "before 3lessrs. P. Brenan and H. Hare, J.P.'s, George Staddack Ongley pleaded guilty ■to the solicitation of alms under false pretences, and to being a rogue and a vagabond, and was sentenced to three months' hard labour. Constable McClinchy stated that accused, by the use of impressivelystamped and signed subscription lists, all of which were forgeries, liad traversed a large part of the South Auckland and i„ f mes , Va Hey districts posing as a col»r !°, r relief of unemployment lee ted * n this wa y be had colfrom symn a tw tant i al SUIIIS of money «r«t3ll I? t farmers " was plausible tale f Whl f le , tellin - a i settler's home. door of a
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 46, 23 February 1929, Page 10
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136SOLICITING ALMS. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 46, 23 February 1929, Page 10
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