VALUELESS CHEQUES
UNIQUE METHODS ADOPTED.
(BI TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
AUCKLAND, 24th May. Pour charges of obtaining goods, cash, or board by means of valueless cheques were admitted in the Police Court today by George W. Sullivan. The offences were committed at Auckland. Hamilton, Te Aroha, Tauranga, Napier, and Wellington last month, the amounts totalling about £100.
In a statement to the police, accused said that he advertised in Auckland For a nurse girl for a couple tearing New .Zealand. He engaged one and took her to Te Aroha, where he left her at an hotel. He took another applicant to Tauranga and Eotorua, leaving her at an hotel. Some of the clothing he obtained was for, the young girls he had engaged. His reason for engaging the girls was that he knew it would be easier for him to get cheques cashed at hotels, as ha was passing them off as his daughters.
Accused was committed to the Supreme Court.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 123, 25 May 1923, Page 7
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159VALUELESS CHEQUES Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 123, 25 May 1923, Page 7
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