MOTOR CAR AS PRIZE
ALLEGED FRAUD THREE MEN CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY [Pee United Press Association.] WELLINGTON. February 22. Five charges of false pretences in the conduct of a competition for which a motor car was offered as prize were made jointly in the Supreme Court to-day against Harold Fairchild Pobar (an agent), Bertram Egley (company racretary), and Hannath Noel Klako Marshall (company director). , The principal charge was that between June, 1935, and March, 1936, accused conspired to defraud such persons as should be induced to purchase tickets in a skill test competition by falsely representing that a car was available as a prize, without disclosing that the car was subject to an instrument by way of security, securing the principal sum of £450, and by falsely representing that the car was new and was being kept sealed. The case will probably last till Thursday.
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Evening Star, Issue 22579, 22 February 1937, Page 12
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144MOTOR CAR AS PRIZE Evening Star, Issue 22579, 22 February 1937, Page 12
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