“Gross Misstatement of Facts ”
RICHARD CROOKS DID NOT TAKE MONEY OUT OF DOMINION Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. An emphatic contradiction of the statement by Mr. Ferg B. Mason, reported from Wanganui yesterday, that Mj. Richard Crooks had “taken every farthing he earned on his recent tour out of the country” was made to-night by Mr. Harry Stringer, secretary of J. C. Williamson Theatres, Limited. Mr. Mason was reported as saying that the earlier statement that Mr. Crooks had been obliged to invest his concert earnings in New Zealand because the Government would not allow him to take the money out of the Dominion was quite untrue. Mr. Mason also stated, according to the Wanganui report, that the funds Mr. Crooks took out of tho country amounted to more than two lots of four figures. “I unhesitatingly say,” said Mr. Stringer, “that Mr. Mason’s comments are a gross misstatement of fact.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 132, 7 June 1939, Page 7
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