Counterfeiter Fined £30
(N.Z. Press Association} WELLINGTON, Aug. 22.
Willem Frederick Van Putten, aged 21, a cameraman, was fined £3O by Mr M. B. Scully, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Wellington today when he appeared for sentence on a charge of counterfeiting Reserve Bank of New Zealand £5 notes.
The Magistrate said Van Putten was fully aware of what he was doing and that in the dim light of a coffee bafr he would deceive people with the £5 notes.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29908, 23 August 1962, Page 15
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