VALUELESS CHEQUES
UNSUSPECTING SHOPKEEPERS -• .' ■Dominion Special Service. ■ Auckland, January 12. The manner-in which bisiness firms accept cheques was severely criticised by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court this morning, when two youths, Frederick Robert Fox (aged 19), and Arthur Henry Ernest Fox (aged 18), appeared before him. for sentence on three charges of obtaining goods and money by means of valueless cheques. The Magistrate said he felt very much inclined not to make an order foi restitution. The boys had bought a ■ mandolin;: tendered a cheque for. £l5 in payment, and it had been accepted When-such a thing was it was putting': temptation in the boys’ way. Indiscriminate cashing of cheques en- - cpuraged thefts of this kind. ' Mr. W. "Ji Campbell (Probation Officer) said he considered it a shocking thing that a boy could tender a cheque for £l5 in payment for goods to the ■ value of -15 s. . Chief-Detective Hammond said .that people did .not .want .to turn away business... „. . ....' ... The two accused were placed on probation, for two years, and ordered to make restitution, the amount being close on £4O,
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 89, 13 January 1928, Page 8
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185VALUELESS CHEQUES Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 89, 13 January 1928, Page 8
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