FORGERY ADMITTED
FALSE PRETENCES CHARGES IMPRISONMENT IMPOSED [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON, Tuesday Pleas of guilty were entered by Donald McLeod, aged 45, a labourer, in the Hamilton Police Court yesterday, to a charge of failing to comply with the terms of his probationary licence, three charges of obtaining money by means of false pretences and one charge of forging a cheque. On the first four charges accused was convicted and sentenced to three months' imprisonment, the sentences to be concurrent, while on the charge of forgery he was committed to\ the Supreme Court for sentence. _ , Evidence was given in connection with tho forgery charge that accused was working for Guy Hart Barry, a farmer at Pirongia and secretary of the Pirongia school committee. When accused left several forms were missing from the committee's cheque book. One of the cheque forms, filled in, was presented to a Waihou farmer, Francis Vincent Flowerday, and was found to be -"a forgery.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22864, 20 October 1937, Page 21
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