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OFFICIAL'S PRESENTATION FOR HIMSELF. (Bt TELKORAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Edgar John Blackburn Clough, ex president of the Arbitration Wharf Labourers' Union, Lyttelton, was fined £5 at the Police Court for false pretences. The evidence showed that he collected a donation of two guineas from the secretary of the Metropolitan Club towards a presentation to the president of the union, and said the Union Shipping Company was subsidising the amount pound for pound. He gave the name of Austin. Union officials said there was no official movement to make a presentation to the president. Clough sent tho cheques to the secretary, who handed them to the police. Clough had been previously convicted of a similar offence years ago.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 43, 20 February 1914, Page 8
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121NOT AUTHORISED Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 43, 20 February 1914, Page 8
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