LONG LIST OF CHARGES
CANVASSER IN SOUTHLAND.
INVERCARGILL, June 25
A middle-aged man appeared m face a charge that, on May 9, at the Police Court this morning to [ winton, with intent to defraud by representing that he was a representative of the New. Zealand Pictorial News,” he did obtain f.rom John GulUck the sum of 12s 6d. Detective-Sergeant Hewitt said that the police had been getting complaints from all over Southland and thei'e would probably be a long list of charges against him. There were in the vicinity of 12 or 14 complaints. The police were informed that accused was identical with a man in Auckland against whom charges of a similar nature were pending. The detective-Ser-geant had no doubt in his own mind about the matter and if the information of the police was correct accused had travelled from one end of New Zealand to the other, taking people dofvn. 1 The Magistrate granted a remand until July 2 and ordered the name
to be suppressaed
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 44, 26 June 1929, Page 6
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