A youth, of good address, but with morals of a get-rich-quick order, has rece tly been operating the confidence trick on a minor scale in Wellington city and suburbs (says the Evening Post). His line is the selling of electric light globes, for which he .harges about 7s 6d, and his method is, after disposing of a globe to a too-trusting housewife or business man, to come back again and borrow the globe on the pretext of wanting to demonstrate it *o another customer. That is the last seer, of the globe and of the guileful yjuth.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3912, 5 March 1929, Page 10
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