FALSE PRETENCES
SICK AND WOUNDED RAFFLE
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. "This was a particularly mean and dispicable theft—thirty days' hard labour," teaid the Magistrate, Mr. E. C. Levvey, to Clifford Boyd Ogilvie, labourer, aged ~23, who was charged with falsely representing that he was^ an agent authorised to collect subscriptions for a raffle in aid of the Sick and Wounded Fund.
' The police said that Ogilvie went from door to door selling tickets in a raffle for a ton of coal and collected £4 16s in two days.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 5, 5 July 1940, Page 8
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90FALSE PRETENCES Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 5, 5 July 1940, Page 8
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