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NEW ZEALANDER IN SYDNEY. SYDNEY, June 24. Thomas Hughes, a clerk, 28 years Df age, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment on a charge of refusing to pay for his accommodation at a leading city hotel, and was committed for trial on a charge of forging a cheque for £2OO on the Bank of New South Wales, Auckland branch. n The. police gave evidence that Hughes paid his hotel bill with a chequo for £2OO, signed in the name of W. Crawford Young. Tho cheque was later returned from the bank. Hughes had recently arrived from New Zealand, where he had been employed as manager of a law book publishing company, and it was alleged that tne name, W. Crawford Young, he had forged was the name of the law book company’s auditor and attorney.—Press Association.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 175, 25 June 1926, Page 8
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138ALLEGED FORGERY. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 175, 25 June 1926, Page 8
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