CHEQUERED CAREER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 123, 26 May 1932, Page 3

CHEQUERED CAREER.

YOUNG TEA MERCHANTS. FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES. TRAIL OF VALUELESS CHEQUES. The brief and chequered career of two young men. an Englishman and an Irishman "was described at the Police Court this morning when Arnold Evan George Webb a«ed 21, and William Robert Ball, 2.-!, appeared on 17 charges involving false pretences. Both pleaded guilty. Detective Sergeant Kelly said Webb and Ball were partners in the Karavan Tea Company, and early in January purchased on the hire-purchase system, motor car, with the idea of expanding their business. However, they soon got Into difficulties, and becoming DnMCigy involved, commenced to issue valueless cheques, chiefly to buy benzine They obtained a fair amount in cash iiom c of issued and the money was frequently used in an endeavour to square ~ their banking accounts and meet the valueless cheques previously issued. I hey ad honed to tide over their business Jntil thing* improved •««#««**•£ able them to square everything up. Ihe total amount of money secured by the issue of valueless cheques was £38 ami Roods and benzine, etc., amounted in value to H> 9/0. In a number of cases people who received valueless cheques had not complained to the police, otherwise the total would have been considerably greater. Both arrived from En"-land about four years ago lheic would probably be an indictable charge brought against the accused. "They alleged that another man coerced thorn in issuing the cheques, added Mr. Kelly. . Both accused were, remanded foi sentence until June 2. In the meantime a report is to be obtained concerning them bf the probation officer.