24 CHARGES OF FRAUD

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28752, 25 November 1958, Page 18

24 CHARGES OF FRAUD

Young Man Remanded

For Sentence

(New Zealand Pres?; Association) HAMILTON. November 24.

A Cambridge farmhand, Noel Herbert McKenzie, aged 22, faced 24 charges of false pretences and one of theft when he appeared before Mr L. M. Inglis. S.M., in the Hamilton Magistrate’s Court today. He pleaded guilty to each count.

Senior-Detective Sergeant J. G. Long said the total amount of! property and money involved was £423 Ils. Goods and money totalling £l9l had been recovered. McKenzie, he said, had recently completed a two-year probation term at Greymouth. He went to Kawerau, but then came to Hamilton and found a job with the city council. While there he took a day off and went to Auckland, where he told a bank manager he was starting a carrying business. McKenzie made a deposit, but the bank manager told him he would have to make another one before he received a cheque book. McKenzie, however, asked for and was given a cheque book by a woman employee as he was leaving the bank.

The Magistrate: I did not think a bank manager would be that “green.” He remanded McKenzie for a probation officer’s report. The offences occurred at 12 places.