Man took scrap and disappeared

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33649, 26 September 1974, Page 3

Man took scrap and disappeared

(.Ven Zealand V NELS The Waimea Elect been stung by a confide of $BB2. It believes o also have been caught. While seeking approvaLi from the board today to 1 write off the half-yearly bad < debts, the secretary, (Mr K.;i M. Giblin) said there was one j large bad debt for $BB2. A man, who had been sup-11 posediv trading under the i — .

less Association) lON, September 25. ric Power Board has nee man to the extent ther authorities may tarne Canterbury Metals, [ wice last year purchased :crap metal worth $7OO from he board. Each time he had: >aid cash. Then, last March, he fought $BB2 worth of scrap netal, but said he did not; lave the money with him.; ie said he would pay later.; “He went back to Christthurch, and never came jack,” Mr Giblin said. The; nan took the scrap metal • A’ith him. The board’s purchasing ofIcer and the police have tried .o find the man, without sue- | jess. “We have chased him all! aver the country, but he has slipped away,”" Mr Giblin said. “He’s played the same game with others. He is a really slippery customer.” Mr Giblin said this one bad debt wrecked the six-monthly figures. Bad debts for electricity totalled $93, compared with $242 for the corresponding period last year.