“SIR ROBERT GUNTHER”
IMPOSTOR REPORTED FROM NEW SOUTH WALES
United Press Association—By Eleotrio Telegraph—Copyright.
SYDNEY, 10th Afigust. The man who early in the year posed as “Sir Robert Gunther,” an. expert from England, and interviewed members ■of the Government, as well as the Civic Commissioners of Sydney, on traffic problems, was deported to-day in the Marama to .New Zealand, whence he will be sent'to England. An engineer by profession, the man appeared in New Zealand in the latter part of 1927. He stayed at a fashionable hotel, and got in touch with prominent people who believed he was a traffic expert; He arrived in Sydney armed with letters'of introduction, but finally suspicions were aroused regarding His " bona fides and an investigation resulted in six months’ imprisonment for imposition.. The term has now expired. ■ , .
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 11 August 1928, Page 7
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