FOR IMPERSONATION

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3850, 5 October 1932, Page 5

FOR IMPERSONATION

MAN PAYS PENALTY FOURTEEN DAYS IN PRISON (Per Press Association) Christchurch, October 4. Tile penalty feu- impersonating Mr A. J. MoE'ldownoy, general secretary of the Christchurch branch of tho Y.M.C.A., is to a young man who was found guilty in. the -Magistrate’s Court, 14, days’ imprisonment. Gustavo A man-;, 22, a labourer, was charged with attempting to obtain front the Government Tourist Office l»y fraud tho rail and boat fare from Christchurch to Palmerston North, valued at £1 8s by repreu renting that lie, wa s Mr MdEldowney. Tho police said accused rang up the Tourist Office gave a false message and then sent, round a hoy to collect t.he. ticket. He had hern, previously ofnyic'ed of th*ft.