IMPOSTORS COLLECTING
(By Telegraph.)
(Special to "The Evening Post.")
CHBISTCHUECH, This Day. A warning to citizens to be. on their guard against impostors who arc purporting to be collecting funds for the unemployed was issued at yesterday's meeting'of the Citizens' Unemployment Committee. , Mr. B. B. Owen said that there was a little host of "spongers" going around the suburbs on Friday. A lady rang him up from Fendalton, and stated that a man had called at her house asking for donations for the unemployed. Subsequently he had ascertained that the man was drawing a pension, and was also working. The Bey. ;T. F. Coursey said that it was a fact that theve were men collecting money. He had got on the trail of one man last week, but unfortunately was not able to catch him.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 137, 14 June 1927, Page 10
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135IMPOSTORS COLLECTING Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 137, 14 June 1927, Page 10
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