CHARGE OF FORGERY
PROBATION FOR NATIVE AGENT By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, November 1. George Graham, aged 63 years, a native agent and authority on the Maori language and customs, who was found guilty last week on a charge of having forged the name of a Maori to a Post Office payment voucher for a remittance from a Maori Land Board, was admitted to probation for three years by Mr Justice Fair in the Supreme Court to-day. This case, said his Honour, was one In which he could give full effect to the jury’s recommendation to mercy.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21183, 2 November 1938, Page 5
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96CHARGE OF FORGERY Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21183, 2 November 1938, Page 5
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