CANVASSER ARRESTED
CHARGED WITH FALSE PRETENCES [Peb United Pkess Association.] AUCKLAND, August 23. An Auckland insurance canvasser Eric Stanley Watts (37), who has been missing for five months and who was arrested on. a fruit farm, at Motueka on Sunday last, appeared in the Police Court to-day, before Mr ;Levien, S.M., charged with that, on January 17, ha obtained £173 from Thomas Arthur Taylor by falsely representing that he was authorised by the Temperance and General Assurance Society to sell & surrendered policy that was actually held by the firm mentioned, whereas in fact no On the application of the police Watts was remanded by consent to September 17.
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Evening Star, Issue 23352, 23 August 1939, Page 10
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108CANVASSER ARRESTED Evening Star, Issue 23352, 23 August 1939, Page 10
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