SALE OF TOBACCO

Southland Times, Issue 22487, 23 January 1935, Page 8

SALE OF TOBACCO

LOW PRICES ADVERTISER APPEARSIN COURT REMAND GRANTED (Per 1 United Press Association.) Dunedin, January 22. Consequent upon advertisements appearing in the Invercargill, Oamaru and Timaru papers offering liquidation stocks of tobacco at prices below the manufacturing costs, an advertiser Buying a Dunedin Post Office box as the address for orders, Ellwood Cuthbertson, aged 25, was charged in the Police Court this morning with obtaining £2 from David Wallace Cochrane at Invercargill by falsely representing that he had tobacco for sale. The police, in asking for a remand, said that Cuthbertson was released from Paparua Prison on January 8 after serving a sentence for false pretences. He came to Dunedin and advertised in several outside papers a liquidation sale of tobacco stocks at prices 35 per cent, below cost. He opened a bank account under an assumed name and secured a Post Office box under another name. Numerous people in country districts had forwarded orders with the money, but had received nothing. Counsel said another version would be put before the Court at the proper time. The whole of the money sent was intact, and those participating would lose nothing. The Magistrate allowed bail, conditional on the accused’s registered mail being handed to the police and the money in the bank being placed on trust, pending the hearing.