GATE CRASHING RUSE
BOGUS TICKETS PRINTED
Sensation followed sensation at the entrance to the wharf on a recent night at Circular Quay, Sydney, where it seemed that half of the city arrived for the huge ball on board the Strathnavcr in aid of the Sydney Mission to Seamen (states an exchange). 'It had been discovered that 600 "fake", tickets had been printed, which were selling as high as. 15s apiece in City '': hotels .all the afternoon. One couple in-the lounge of a Sydney hotel were reported to have paid as much as £3 3s each for their two tickets, which, they believed, were genuine. ; - Dancers were treated to the spectacle of seeing two. largd members of the police force, aided by members of the P. and O.:.Company, .holding up each ticket for minute. scrutiny as it was presented.. A man at a table just within the wharf gazed through a miscroscope at the printing and colour of every slip,of pasteboard.which was tendered at the gate; Several couples were turned away, and disconsolately they waited'in the cold outside, in the hope that fortune might yet favour them and that their tickets might be proved genuine. ■ ; TAKING PRECAUTIONS. The first intimation which the ship ping company and-the organisers of the dance received was that a printing firm bad been given orders to print off 600 extra tickets. As a result, special precautions were taken against this new form of gate crashing, and- even members of Sydney's most social families had to suffer tho same scrutiny at the gateway as did veriest suburbia. The Strathnaver has had a sensational trip to Australian, waters. One officer declared that at every port there had been the samo tremendous demand for tickets with Brisbane particularly emphatic. The dance in the northern capital was scheduled to end at midnight, but the ship's officers were still struggling to persuade the guests to leavo at 1.45 a.m. One. officer at the Sydney ball had taken special precautions by carefully locking up his own apartments and demanding a password before anyone was privileged to enter.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 140, 10 December 1931, Page 13
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GATE CRASHING RUSE
Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 140, 10 December 1931, Page 13
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