Maori Ex-Soldier Admits Forgery (Special.) KAITAIA, This Day.
p’orgery and uttering of a Post Office savings bank withdrawal form by which he withdrew £IBB 15/- from a deceased soldier's war gratuity account was alleged against a Maori exserviceman in the Kaitaia Court on Thursday. Accused was George Harris, alias Dick William Harris, married, with two children, of Mangamuka. Pleading guilty, he was committed for sentence at the Auckland Supreme Court by Messrs J. T. B. Taatfe and W. H. Atkins, JsP. The charge alleged that lie had obtained the cash withdrawal from a member of the Kaitaia Post Office staff by forgery purporting to be the signature of Joe Thomas Harris, an exserviceman, who was accidentally killed in July of last year. Statements produced in evidence alleged that the deceased soldier's gratuity account passbook had come into accused’s possession and that he had fraudulently withdrawn the full amount at credit from the Kaitaia Post Office.
He had squandered the whole sum gained and, in addition, had spent the full amount of his own gratuity.
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Northern Advocate, 15 March 1947, Page 5
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