FALSE PRETENCES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 56, 30 August 1939, Page 5

FALSE PRETENCES

MAORI'S BLUFF SUCCEEDS DEPOSIT ON ACCORDION Musicians arc generally believed to be an impractical tj-pe, and D. S. Clark gave some support to this thtorv for when one Tai Whenua Re--1 ) wai accosted him in the .street and put over the story of knowing a man v.-ho had a cheap accordion for sale lip believed the native and handed him a deposit of 12s. Later Rewai extracted an additional 10s from hb victim, who eventually began to worry and informed the police. The result was that Rewai pleaded guilty to a charge of obtaining the sum of £1 2s from David Samuel Clark by falsely representing that he had a piano accordion for sale when he appeared before Messrs G. A. Brabant and F. Prideaux ? . Justices of the Peace, at Whakatane on Monday. Outlining the case, Constable T. . J. Cummings said that Rewai accosted Clark outside a shop where the latter had just paid a deposit of 12s on a piano accordion. He told him that he could get him a cheap from a man on a boat, feritl induced Clark to collect his deposit and hand it over to him. Next day Rewai met Clark -and told him "that the deposit was insufficient and that the seller of the accordion required an additional 10s. He ob, tained this sum, and that was last Clark saw of Rewai or his money Rewai was sentenced to 1-1 days' the term to be served -at fhe Whakatane gaol.