CONFIDENCE TRICK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20105, 16 November 1928, Page 16

CONFIDENCE TRICK.

"A JOB IN QUEENSLAND." NEW ZEALANDER VICTIM. [KHOM Oi l? OWN CORRESPONDENT.] SYDNEY. Nov. 8 It seems strange that so many New Zealanders should be the victim of confidence tricksters in Sydney. Another instance has just occurred, and it is )vorth recounting, i! only as a warning to others. The latest victim met an affable and apparently affluent stranger in the citv, and the stranger asked the New /••alander if lie was looking for a jol,

Ihe New Zealander. thinking he was in' luck's way, promptly answered in the aflirmative. whereupon fho stranger said thai In; was the owner of a cane farm at I ■ 1111 <I a I ii'i'g. m Northern Queensland. " I wo,ild like to give you a job there," he mikl, liluwiiig smoke tings toward the

ceiling. " I low would you like a good jot. on a r.iiie farm at I'undaherg."

What thev make cane ( hails out of a.keil the New /.ealander.

No." c.inie the reply, " cane that von ea' -aigai < a lie. You cut the cane down and send li, io the null. The mill squeezes Ihe Miuar out, and there yOll are. All you have to do i.s to collect the money lot the sugar. How do you like that

" I tlnnk I will take il on," said the New Zealander.

"flood," said the Bundabcrg cane farmer. " Cood. I want a reliahle man like you." In tin course of a few hours the New Zealander was prevailed upon to buy a railway ticket for Brisbane, and then the cane farmer fumbled in his pockets, and found that he had no ready money. He wanted to buy some, implements very badly, he said. The New Zealander readily made a loan to his prospective employer, rather glad to be on such terms of financial familiarity. Later the New '/ealander left lor Brisbane,, and arrived there with exactly 2, in his pocket. The cane farmer from Bundaherg did not appe.ir at (he time and place appointed, and the visitor found himself completely stranded.

Almost destitute and very unhappy the man walked hack to Sydney, hut before he left Brisbane he told his story to the defectives. As a result, of their inquiries the police have made an arrest.