BOGUS INSPECTOR.
SENT TO GAOL FOR ONE YEAR. TOUR OF WAIRARAPA SCHOOLS. OBTAINED GOODS AT THAMES. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) . WELLINGTON, this day. ; The career of Clive Oakenfull, the man who recently made a tour of the Wairarapa district posing as a school inspector, was halted for twelve months to-day by the imposition by Mr. E. Page, S.M., of gaol for that period on charges of obtaining credit by fraud and false pretences.
Oakenfull Avarj described as a school teacher, aged 315, and he pleaded guilty to a charge that • ill incurring debts to the amount of £50 14/6 he obtained credit by fraud.and to two charges of obtaining money to the amount of £4 12/0 by false pretences.
The police stated that accused came to. Wellington from Thames, where he had imposed on the jeweller, obtaining a ring and clock on approval for his wife, find then disappeared. He represented himself at Wellington as an inspector of the Queensland Education Department. The.police stated that he had a criminal history dating from 1921.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 245, 16 October 1931, Page 9
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