CREDIT BY FRAUD.
(TRAVELLER BEFORE COURT.
A commercial traveller, Frank James Pi •ice, aged 38, appeared for sentence in the Polico Court yesterday on two charges of obtaining credit by fraud !>y incurring debts totalling £8 15s with the proprietors to two city hotels, where he/, failed to pay his board.
Chief-Detective Hammond stated that accused had pleaded guilty to both offence's. He was a married man with a ■wife and five children living in Hastings, ijind had been employed at canvassing work in.Auckland. "The man has been on a drinking bout," Rtated the probation officer, Mr. W. ,7. Campbell, who said that if accused .were dealt with leniently ho should bo prohibited. Fines of £1 on each charge wore imposed by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., .who ordi.-ix'd Price to make restitution and iixed default at one month's imprisonment. !
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20622, 22 July 1930, Page 12
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