FALSE PRETENCES
COURSE OF TUITION
GUARANTEED EMPLOYMENT
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, October 26,
Eight charges of obtaining money by false pretences were preferred against Frederick Joseph Huddleston, clerk, aged 30, for whom Mr. Noble appeared befo,re Mr. Justice Callan in the Supreme Court. It was alleged that the accused obtained a total of £40 by falsely representing that he was training men for employment with a refrigeration company and that .he could guarantee men employment with the company provided they undertook a course of tuition with him at a cost of £20. The offences were alleged, to have occurred between March 17 and May 24, 1938. Mr. G. Meredith appeared for the Crown. In referring to transactions between the accused and William George Robert Craig, labourer, Auckland. Mr. Meredith said that Craig got into tduch with the accused through a newspaper advertisement. The accused gave Craig to understand that he represented New Zealand Air Conditioners, Limited, that the company was looking for young men, and that it was putting, up factories throughout New Zealand and had commenced one in Hamilton. Craig was promised a job provided he undertook a course of training under the accused at a cost of £20. Craig paid amounts of 10s and £9 10s,' but was given only sketchy tuition. He was given an Algebra paper which, on completion, he forwarded to an address provided, but received no reply. Mr. Meredith outlined similar transactions between the accused and Jack Hanham, motor, mechanic, Arthur Cyril Hilliam, . shpp assistant, and Peter Allard, labourer^ Mr. Noble, who offered no evidence, submitted that the accused had made no false statements whatever. The accused had been unable to fulfil his promises' or to start his business and give employment to the young men concerned because < he was arrested and put into prison.
The jury brought. in a verdict of guilty on all counts, and the accused was remanded for sentence.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 102, 27 October 1938, Page 14
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319FALSE PRETENCES Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 102, 27 October 1938, Page 14
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