AGENT'S POSE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 86, 12 April 1933, Page 11

AGENT'S POSE.

NOBLE BIRTH CLAIM. BORROWED FROM GIRL. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) DUNEDIN, this day. Describing himself as a member of the Scottish nobility, with financial interests in Australia, an insurance agent named Stewart Smith, of Invercargill, came to grief when he entered into engagements with one girl in Dunodin and another in Oamaru. In the Magistrate's Court, Mr. J. R. Batholomew, S.M., described him as a "romancer and adventurer," and gave judgment in favour of the Dunedin girl in a suit fbr the recovery of £39, being th© total of sums she lent him during their brief engagement. A witness, named Gray, said Smith, told him he was' the son of a baronet and it would be necessary for him to go home to Scotland and assume the title of "Sir" and receive. a share of his father's estate. Smith had told witness his father was Sir William Smith, founder of the Boys' 'Brigade movement, and also stated that his elder brother was Sir Horace Lockwood Smitli-Dorien.- Witness looked up two books of references and discovered that Sir William Smith was born in 1854 and Sir Horace in 1858. Smith had said that he had £14,000 in property m West Australia and had come to New Zealand for a holiday.