WHISKY ‘CUSTOMERS’ WERE DEFRAUDED
AUCKLAND, This Day (P.A.).— Five charges of false pretences and one of obtaining credit by fraud, involving a total of £5OO, were admitted by Joseph Patrick Lawrence, aged 33,' a tram conductor, in the Police Court today. The police said that Lawrence represented he had arranged to buy cases of whisky and needed the money to pay before supplying cusLawrence was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Pretending to an acquaintance that he was a member of the police force cost Stanley Robert Ritchie, aged 19, a fine of £5. He pleaded guilty. “By being .a fool like this,” the Magistrate, Mr M. C. Astley, said, “You ran the risk of three months in gaol or a £5O fine.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 February 1950, Page 5
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