HOTELKEEPERS ADVISED

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3822, 16 October 1936, Page 7

HOTELKEEPERS ADVISED

CIVIL REMEDY WHEN THEY CASH VALUELESS CHEQUES. “Let hotelkeepers who cash cheques for men whom they must know have not bank accounts take their civil remedy, especially when these men have been at their places drinking,” said Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court, Palmerston North, when he refused to make an order for restitution in the case of Alexander Cameron, cook, aged 37, who obtained £3 18s from George Luoni, Royal Hotel, Palmerston North, and £8 from Eva Connop, Albert Hotel, Hastings, by means of valueless cheques which he tendered in payment for board and received change. Detective Sergeant Bickerdike said that Cameron came into town with £B4 after working in a camp. Drink was his downfall. He had a good war record and a chance to go back to work if he had the opportunity. When arrested he was practically in-the dek.rium tremens and all his £B4 had gone. Mr Stout said that probably the hotelkeepers got all the money. He convicted Cameron and ordered him to come up for sentence if called upon within tw’o years.