VALUELESS CHEQUES

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29912, 28 August 1962, Page 7

VALUELESS CHEQUES

Cook Admits Four Charges (N.Z. Press Association) PALMERSTON N„ Aug. 27. Graham Edward Larwood, aged 26, a cook, pleaded guilty before Mr D. G. Sinclair, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Palmerston North today to four charges of passing valueless cheques at Dunedin, Christchurch and Napier. Larwood also admitted comverting a car worth £750 and stealing an electric shaver worth £7.

Detective Senior Sergeant F. A. Gordon said that, on June 19, Larwood bought three gallons of petrol from a Dunedin service station and tendered a cheque drawn on an Ashburton bank for £2O in payment. This was accepted and he was given £l9 8s 7d in change. The same day Larwood cashed another cheque drawn on the same bank for £5 at Port Chalmers and received £4 19s 6d, 6d being for exchange. He travelled to Christchurch by rental car and there eashed a third cheque for £5. Larwood travelled to the North Island that night and went to Napier. Mr Gordon said. On June 22 he stayed at a hotel and paid his bill amounting to £2 Is by tendering a cheque for £l5. He was given £l2 19s in change AU the cheques were valueless.

On August 7, Larwood got a job as a cook in Palmerston North under an assumed name. He was arrested in Shahnon on August 20 after he had been seen converting a oar in Palmerston North. The Magistrate convicted Larwood and remanded him until Monday for sentence.