"WANTED-TAXI-DRIVER."
MEN PAY £7 EACH AS BONDS. YOUNG MAN-SENT TO GAOL. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Leslie John Withers,- aged : 22, according to a story told'in the Police Court to-day, inserted an advertisement in a newspaper for a taxi-driver, and gave three men the. position. He took from i the sum- of £7* as a- fidelity bond, -and was about to enter into a similar arrangement with a fourth but did hot go through with it. The three men beeamc dissatisfied; and in response to. the. requests bf one he returned him his £7. In the case -of the other- two, -however, he used the money for his own purposes. | He was;''found guilty of theft and sentenced to-one-month-in gaoL .
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 18, 22 January 1931, Page 22
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