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Evening Star, Issue 17923, 20 March 1922, Page 7

Note.—Householders wishing to insure houses or furniture should ring 3,721 or 959, and after 6 p.m. 2,143. 'For about threepence per week you can get a risk of £2oo.—Trotman, Chief Agent, Queensland Insurance Company, Ltd., 73 Princes street.—[Advt.]

Businss people will take heed of an unscrupulous effort which was made last week to secure money from a city firm by false pretences (states the Aucldand 'Star'). The person concerned struck upon rather a novel idea, but it failed to get past a clerk employed at the office, ana the stranger can be said to have been lucky in not Being handed over to the police. He conveyed a message by telephono " from. Whangarei" that one of his employees was stranded in tho city, and that ho would be pleased if on his _ calling at the office they would hand him the price of a return fare to Whangarei. The person duly called, but tho clerk in the meantime, suspecting that it was a ruse, communicated with the telephone exchange, and ascertained that tho message received had come from the city and not from the northern township, with the result that the individual was, instead of being handed the easy money, confronted with the knowledge thus gained, but unfortunately was not detaiiied.