“SCHOOL INSPECTOR” FRAUD
MAN GAOLED AT WELLINGTONMONEY BY FALSE PRETENCES. By Telegraph—Presa Association. Wellington, Oct. 16. The career of Clive Oakenfull, the man who recently made a tour of the Wairarapa district posing as a school inspector, was halted for 12 months today by the imposition by Mr. E. Page, S.M.. of gaol for that period on charges of obtaining credit by fraud and false pretences. Oakenfull was described as a school teacher, aged 36, and he pleaded guilty to charges that in incurring debts to the amount of £5O 14s Gd he obtained credit by fraud, and to two charges of obtaining money to the amount of £4 12s Gd by false pretences. 'The police stated that Oakenfull camo to Wellington from Thames, where he had imposed on a jeweller, obtaining a ring and clock on appro, for his wife. He° then disappeared. He represented himself at Wellington as an inspector of the Queensland Education Department. He had a criminal history dating from 1921-
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 October 1931, Page 23 (Supplement)
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