IDE.tifICATION PRECAUTIOONS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1799, 29 August 1906, Page 67

IDENTIFICATION PRECAUTIOONS.

DUNEDIN, August 21

When a prisoner convicted of forging a receipt to a cabled remittance was before the Supreme Court to-day for sentence, the Crown Prosecutor said there was a further charge of the same character pending against the prisoner in respect to *£loo paid by a bank. Mr Justice Cooper remarked that there seemed to be a great deal of carelessness as to identification in these matters. The Crown Prosecutor: I propose to make representations to the post office authorities that no telegram for money should be sent in the name of any person other than the person who presents the telegram, unless his authority to use that name be proved at the time to the satisfaction of the officer receiving the telegram; and, further, that no money should be paid over from a money-order office on a telegram unless the identity of the person receiving the money is clearly established.