POSED AS AN EXPERT.
IMPOSTER TO BE DEPORTED. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, Aug. 10. A man who early in the year posed as* Sir Robert Gunther, an expert fronv England, and interviewed members of the Government, as well as tfie civic commissioners' of Sydney on traffic problems, was deported to-day in the Afarama, whence he will be sent to England. An engineer by profession, the man appeared in New Zealand in the latter part of 1927. He stayed at a fashionable hotel and got in touch with prominent people, who believed he was a traffic expert. He arrived in Sydney armed with letters of introduction, but finally suspicions were aroused regarding his bona fides, and an investigation resulted; in six months’ imprisonment for the imposition. The term; has expired.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 11 August 1928, Page 5
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135POSED AS AN EXPERT. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 11 August 1928, Page 5
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