CHARGE OF FRAUD.
UNSCRUPULOUS EMIGRATION AGENTS.
BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. _■■".. LONDON/ Jan. 19. G. H. Brown, an. emigration agent, was arrested at Nelson, Lancashire, on December 28 on a charge of having obtained money on false pretences in connection with,forged testimonials for a farm laborer emigrating to: Australia." The Agents-General co-operated in the prosecution. . .
A high Canadian emigration authority, interviewed by the Pall Mall Gazette, stated that the number of unscrupulous agents had enormously increased, and a series of prosecutions are proceeding. .
Brown has now been remanded, and the Magistrate at Nelson will hear the case on the 30th inst. There are thirty witnesses.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 20 January 1912, Page 5
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103CHARGE OF FRAUD. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 20 January 1912, Page 5
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