“SIR ROBER T" DEPORTED
THE BOGUS TRAFFIC EXPERT Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, August 10. A man who early in the year posed as Sir Robert Gunther, an expert from England, and interviewed of the Government as well as the civic commissioners of Syeney on traffic problems, was deported to-day in the Marama to New Zealand, whence ho will be sent to England. An engineer by profession, the man appeared in New Zealand in the latter part of 1927. He stayed at a fashionable hotel, and got in touch with prominent people, who believed he was a traffic expert Ho arrived in Sydney armed with letters of introduction, but finally suspicions were aroused regarding his buna tides, and investigation resulted in a sentence of six months’ imprisonment for imposition. The term has now expired.
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Evening Star, Issue 19942, 11 August 1928, Page 4
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133“SIR ROBERT" DEPORTED Evening Star, Issue 19942, 11 August 1928, Page 4
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