CRUEL DECEPTION.
FARM MANAGER AND FAMILY
LEFT STRANDED IN TOWN.
(From Our Own 'Correspondent.)
TAIHAPE, Thursday.
There; , .arrived•■ in . Taihape this week from Hamilton a man and his wife and family of six to take up a position as manager of a small station in the vicinity.. The newcomer had met a man in Hamilton who had advertised for a housekeeper in that town, representing he was a farmer from Taihape in an easy position financially. The man with the family, who was managing a farm in the Waikato, met the "affluent" one through. Ms daughter, who had answered the advertisement. The farm manager was offered the job of managing the Taihape faring and lie accepted it. ;
: The .whole eight, accompanied by furniture, arrived in Taihape only to discover the whole thing a fabrication, and they are ftranded,. without scarcely a penny;.; / > What the other man, Avho gave the name,of "Woodward," hoped to gain, out ,pf his-deceptioa^is^a-mjrstei^.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 174, 25 July 1930, Page 10
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