CAR DEALER GAVE FALSE CHEQUES
Property Valued At £1231 Obtained (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, August 8. In the Magistrate’s Court today Raymond Goyne Leeder, aged 41, a car dealer, pleaded guilty to 10 charges of obtaining credit by fraudulently issuing cheques. The police prosecutor. Mr C. J. Smillie, said the total value of the property obtained was £1231, and included three motor-cars. A trail of worthless cheques spread northwards from Wellington last month resulted in detectives meeting Leeder in Hamilton on July 28. He had just come out from a used-car yard with £l5O, which he had just been paid for a car he had acquired in Inglewood, with a valueless cheque. Leeder was convicted on each charge, by Mr W. H. Carson,.S.M., and remanded for, a week for sentence. A sow on a farm in England gave birth to her 144th piglet.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28660, 9 August 1958, Page 4
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