COURTS NOT DEBT COLLECTORS
Magistrate Comments In Fraud Case
(New Zealana Press Association) NELSON, February 15. There was no reason why the Court should become an institution for collecting trade debts, Mr W. Carrol Harley, S.M., said in the Magistrate’s Court today when he refused to make an order for restitution after imposing sentence on a series of charges. “I have been long of the opinion that trades people who cash cheques indiscriminately for total strangers, deserve to lose their money,” he said. Before the Court for sentence, on 10 charges of false pretences and four of having obtained credit by fraud, was Norman Edward Beck, aged 49, a quarryman, who was represented by Mr D. J. Boyle. In imposing a sentence of 12 months’ imprisonment, the. Magistrate remarked that offences of this nature could not go unpunished. Beck had already had the benefit of probation, but had failed to take advantage of this. This prison term would give Beck time to think, he added
Children think not of what is past, nor what is to come, but enjoy the present time, which lew of us do.—Jean de La Bruyere.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29130, 16 February 1960, Page 16
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