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Grey River Argus, 11 January 1928, Page 5

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LABOURER POSES AS SQUATTER. £33 OBTAINED BY FALSE PRETENCE. WELLINGTON, January 10. Thomas James Campbell .labourer, 48, pleaded guilty to-day to obtaining £33 by means of false pretence, the story being that he went to a registry office m Palmerston North, representing fie was a well-to-do farmer at Taihape and wished to engage a houseC keeper. He engaged a woman named Blanche Cook, and obtained £33 from her by explaining he was temporarily embarrassed and wanted to truck some stock to the farm. He sent the woman to Taihape, where she found she had been hoaxed. Accused also admited obtaining &> by a valueless cheque and £3 from Charles Simpson, by representing he was a relative of Simpson’s son-in-law. Accused had previously served terms of imprisonment for false pretences, forgery and theft. He was sentenced to six month’s imprisonment concur rent on the two minor charges, and on the third charge was convicted and ordered to come up within three years if called upon, a condition being that he repays the £33, at £1 per week.