Shipping Men Face Fraud Charges In Bookings To N.Z.
(N.Z.P.A.—Reuter —Copyright.) (10 a.m.) LONDON, May 19. At the Guildhall today, Mr. James Ignatius Rogers, of the Panama Pacific Shipping Line Limited, and Captain John Frederick Keith Cork, were charged, on remand, with having con-’ spired to defraud people who had been induced to pay for sea passages to Australia and New Zealand.
The prosecutor said that in September, 1948, Cork advertised on a motor car parked outside Australia House in the Strand that he could make available immediate passages to Australia and New Zealand for £l6O on a ship which would sail in November.
As a result several people booked passages and Cork received from them about £930.
The prosecutor said that later the Panama Pacific Shipping Line Limited was incorporated in Dublin. Rogers was the managing director. The company then inserted advertisements in local London newspapers similar to those which Cork earlier displayed outside Australia House.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22951, 20 May 1949, Page 5
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