TROUBLE OVER CHEQUE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21560, 3 August 1933, Page 10

TROUBLE OVER CHEQUE

ENDORSEMENT FORGED^ ACCUSED ADMITS OFFENCE [from our own correspondent] PUKEKOHE, Wednesday The cashing of a cheque at Te Kauwhata to which lie had forged the endorsement was admitted by a relief worker, William George Peckham, before Mr. F. H. Levien, S.M., in the Pukekohe Police Qourt to-day. Accused was committed to the Supreme Court at Auckland for sentence. A charge of {supplying liquor to natives was withdrawn for lack of evidence. A native, Don Manm, said, that on June 21 he missed a wages cheque for £4 14s 5d in his favour. He was in Te Kauwhata that day, being employed near the town. He identified a cheque produced in Court as the one he lost. The endorsement was not his, ho said. He had payment stopped on finding that the cheque had disappeared. James Benjamin Andrews, wine 4 merchant, Te Kauwhata, said that on June 21, lie sold a quantity of wine to a person. Payment was made by the cheque for £4 14s sd, which was later returned by the bank marked "payment stopped." ' Constable H. J. Olsen, of Mercer, gave evidence that accused had stated that he found the cheque on the railway station. He bought sdme wine with it, and-took the wine to a place in the trees, where three Maoris helped to drink a quantity of it. His earnings were £2 3s per week and he had a military pension.