EXTRADITION ORDER
SYDNEY BUSINESS MAN
SYDNEY, January 23. The case of John' Wbolcott-Forbes, well-known Sydney business man, who was arrested on his arrival in India last week, was resumed ■ today, when evidence disclosed that Forbes's broking firm in Sydney - advanced him £12,500 in 1937 on -the security of fully-paid share's' in the Producers and .General Finance Coi> poration. Other loans in 1938 brought the total to £17,500. A woman clerk testified that 100 share certificate forms given as security for a portion of the.advances to Forbes bore numbers corresponding to those missing from the scrip book referred to by earlier witnesses. The Magistrate granted an extradition order.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 19, 24 January 1939, Page 10
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107EXTRADITION ORDER Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 19, 24 January 1939, Page 10
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