WHERE IS JOHN WOODLEY ?

NZ Truth, Issue 1080, 12 August 1926, Page 5

WHERE IS JOHN WOODLEY ?

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" ■ (From "Truth's" Special Auckland Representative.) THERE are not a few people m Auckland who would like to know 1 the whereabouts of one John 0. Woodley. Others would be even more pleased to know that certain money they entrusted -,o him is safe. ' '•"■.■ '■' v.-. .'■'•' :." .''•' v : \' ."■"■'■ V" ' '■•'■ . ■' "' r-^mCTINa on a claim to recover the sum Vl: £165/10/3, being PSW ' money which plaintiff did pay -to defendant to be lie ld -by _ I itS the defendant m trust for plaintiff,' and which the deieni .< dant had failed to return after demand was made, judg-. ft—^W Went was given' against Woodley for the above amoutat 111 J An' Sder by; default' on a judgment summons with three months imprisonment was entered against Woodley ;■ on July o.tor the amount of £175/16/^. -. . .The warrant was suspended for a fortnight, but that period has now expired. \" ■ Woodley is a solicitor and a young lnembtM- . of the- profession., .; He belongs to ,a family I well known m Auckland ami only Avitliin recent I times went into Business' on his own account. I Hisr coalings m a certain Court Case recently I caused Judge "Stringer ]to .comment strongly on ' the part he had played. r ; 7 .; : In fact, his Honor stated that Woodley 's action had assisted a fraud involving over £500. . n The question will— at ' the suggestion of the Judge— be handed to the Law Society to inquire into. It is stated by some .who knew Woodley intimately ,that he was somewhat inclined, to the bright life. .-_.■_; . ■. . On the pecasion of the visit of the American Fleet, the • story goes that a champagne dinner he gave to the naval, men was on a particularly ...lavish sqale. - • •