Sydney Financier To Be Extradited
(Received 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, January 23. > An order for the extradition to Aus-
tralia of John Wooicott Forbes, who ? was arrested last week in Bombay, was made by the magistrate at the Central
Police-Court today, after further evi-
i dence had been heard. 7 ilt was disclosed that Forbes’ sharebroking firm in Sydney advanced him £12.500 on the security of fully paid shares in tho Producers’ and General Finance Corporation, and other loans in 1938 brought to total to £ 17,500. A woman clerk gave evidence that 100 share certificate forms given as security for portion of the advances to Forbes, bore numbers corresponding to those missing from the scrip book, referred io by early witnesses.
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Northern Advocate, 24 January 1939, Page 7
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