GLASSWORKS BUBBLE

Evening Star, Issue 21170, 2 August 1932, Page 8

GLASSWORKS BUBBLE

FARMER DEFRAUDED OF £1,203 EXTRADITED MAN ON TRIAL [Pan United Press Association.] ' AUCKLAND, August 2. The trial id proceeding in the Supreme Court of Clifford Spencer Dunlin alias Power (aged 37) and Reginald Clarence Williams alias Reader (43), ; who were extradited from Australia on charges of conspiring to defraud a North Auckland farmed named George Montague Poyner of £1,200. It is alleged that the accused are two of four men who last August had a part in transactions with Poyner in which he asserts he lost £1,200. The men told him that a great glassworks was to be built in Auckland by a Belgian firm on land owned by a widow m England. This land could be bought cheaply and resold immediately to the Belgians at a handsome profit. Poyner, eventually wrote a cheque for £1,200,; and one of the men wrote a for £2,800. Both were handed to Power, who wrote a cheque for £4,600., Poyner held this cheque only temperaTThe men left, and it is alleged that shortly afterwards Poyner’s cheque was cashed. Poyner was unable definitely, to identify the men, but the Crown Prosecutor said they would be identified by others.