DOMINION NEWS
POULTRY SWINDLE. ('ll RISTCIIURCH. June 14 The story of a man. who set up business in Christchurch as Southern Poultry Distributors Ltd., secured orders for £3OO. mid failul in many cases to fulfil orders for poultry, was unfolded before Magistrate Mosley this morning. Accused, John Francis Burns, 29, described tis a cabinet-maker, was sen tenet'll to 12 inonth> in gaol. He plead cd guilty to seven charges, affect ing buyers in Kaitangata. Nelson. Reel I:>n. Balclutha, Oamaru. Tiniaru ami ('hristchurch. The police said that instead of send ing pullets t<> a ('oast bnyur -attor ac cepting orders, accused foi’warded 'd'l hens. He had offered through adver tisement to sell first < lass poultry. Or dors came from all over Now Zealand. He fullilled some orders, but in othei cases just pocketed the money. Burns had been in trouble before in a somewhat similar case.
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Grey River Argus, 15 June 1933, Page 3
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