TO SPITE FIRM

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 December 1934, Page 9

TO SPITE FIRM

BOY HOAXES WORKLESS. How a 15-year-old boy, in an attempt to spite a firm which had dismissed him published a bogus advertisement and so hoaxed scores of unemployed, was told at Wimbledon Juvenile Court recently. The boy, who was summoned for obtaining 4s credit by false pretences from a Wimbledon newspaper, was placed on probation for two years. Cayt. W. H. Stoakley, of the “Wimbledon Borough News,” said the advertisement appeared to be signed by someone whom he knew, and was to advertise vacancies at a local business house. Mr. William Henry Curties, of Strat-ton-rpad, Merton Park, manager of the Nev;'Cathedral Press, Wimbledon, said that when ho arrived at his office on October 9 ho found fifty people outside. They told him they had come in. reply to an advertisement, which stated this firm required employees between the ages of 15 and 50. All day long the firm was worried by people arriving at the office, and later some of the unemployed got rather “truculent,” and were asking to have their fares paid. The firm had no vacancies. Dct.-Sergt. Long stated that the boy said he was formerly employed by the New Cathedral Press, and was very upset when he was discharged. He inserted the advertisement to annoy tho firm, and he hoped they would have to pay for it. Mr. Curtis, recalled, stated that after tho boy left the firm over 300 letters, were found under his mattress at his home. He had been too lazy to post them. None of them had been tampered with.