“MEANEST POSSIBLE THING”
FOOD OBTAINED BY FRAUD.
TWO MEN SENT TO PRISON.
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Oct. 16.
“It appears to the Court as just one of the meanest thngs you could possibly do —to frob someone else of the goods necessary for him to live,” said the magistrate, Mr. Mosley, when two labourers, Charles Franklin Francis, aged 25, and Charles Cuddon, aged 35, were charged with being rogues and vagabonds by imposing on the North Canterbury Hospital Board, with intent to obtain‘benefit. Both pleaded guilty, and they were sentenced to one month’s hard labour The police sad that the accused secured rations from the hospital board by giving a wrong address, when really they were staying at a. Salvation Army home. Francis had admitted that he threw some of the rations away.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 October 1931, Page 6
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