CLAIMS DIPOMAS

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2504, 22 August 1931, Page 6

CLAIMS DIPOMAS

ASTROLOGER tJN COURT A FINE OF TWENTY POUNDS (Per Press Association). Auckland, August 21. Spencer Bone was to-day fined £’2o in default a month’s imprisonment, for publicity using the initials ‘,*AI.A. ,*’ intending to convey that he had a University degree.

Detectives sakl that Bone was known .as Doc tor Bone, and ectnductcd a course in astrology. in a circular. he described himself as M.A., P.R.D.S., F.R.S.. and undertook publicity to read charts and invited l>cop!c to become- members of the New Zealand Astrological Association at £T a. year. The defendant was formerly in Christchurch running a theatrical school aud proposing to pn duce “movies,’ ’ hut it came to nothing.

The defenadnt requested aJI adjournment to enable him to secure liis diplomas from America.

The Magistrate Air Hunt) sad lie would grant an adjournment if the defendant would swear <>ri oath that he had diplomas, but warned him that if that were untrue he Would risk prosecution for perjury. The defendant declined to enter the Ik>x, and when fined declared that h# would produce his diplomas later.