Little Knowledge Led To Court
Little Knowledge Led To Court
Litiie knowledge of the correct procedure in filling in a cheque form led to the quick apprehension of a Maori youth. In the Whangarei Court today, Kena Maihe, or Ken Marsh, 17, labourer, of Parakao, admitted that yesterd&y, with intent to defraud, he had attempted to obtain from a taxi-driver £9/11/- by falsely representing that a cheque for £lO/18/6 was a good and valid order for that amount.
Senior-Sergeant J. Sutherland said that Maihe had seen a blank cheque form in the shed of his employer, and, wanting to visit Whangarei for the football, had filled it in. It was a poolattempt and the taxi-driver to whom he had given it in payment of a fare from Parakao to Whangarei had doubted its genuineness.
The magistrate (Mr W. C. Harley) convicted Maihe and ordered him to come up for sentence within six months it required, and to make restitution of 27/6 taxi fare.
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Northern Advocate, 3 June 1947, Page 4
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