SINGER'S EARNINGS
MR RICHARD CROOKS ANOTHER STATEMENT CONTRADICTED <Peb United Press Association) WELLINGTON. June 6. An emphatic contradiction of the statement by Mr Ferg. B. Mason, reported from Wanganui yesterday, that Mr Richard Crooks had "taken every farthing he earned on his recant tour out of the country," was .made to-night by Mr Harry Stringer secretary of J. C Williamson's Theatres;, Ltd. Mr Mason was reported as saying that the earlier statement, that Mr Crooks had been obliged to invest his concert earnings in New Zealand because the Government would not allow him to take the money out of the Dominion, was quite untrue. Mr Mason also stated, according to the Wanganui report, that the funds that Mr Crocks took out of the country amounted to more than two lots of four figures. „ „ .. . aA . "I unhesitatingly say," Mr Stringer jrtated, "that Mr Mason's comments •re a gross misstatement of fact.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23828, 7 June 1939, Page 12
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