AN OPEN CHEQUE
DEFENDANT'S UNIQUE ACT [bt telegraph—OWN correspondent] , ?; - PUKEKOHE; Thursday. "This is perfectly unique," said Mr. F... HV'Levieny S.M., in the Pukckohe Court. "Defendant' sends an open cheque drawn on the Bank of New Zealand at Auckland to be filled in by the clerk of the Court. He writes that as he will he una hi? to attend the Court to-dav he pleads guilty." The charge was of failing'to have a current warrant of fitness in his lorry. Defendant was Louis Raymond Handley. of Glenniurray. The cheque is to lie .filled in for £1 5s (id, the magistrate convicting defendant and ordering him to pay the costs.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23428, 18 August 1939, Page 13
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108AN OPEN CHEQUE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23428, 18 August 1939, Page 13
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