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MATTER VIEWED SERIOUSLY By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, December 9. An unusual story was disclosed in the Court to-day when Cecil Wilfred Norris pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the police. It was stated that he called at the Taranaki Street police station and made a complaint regarding the loss of £270 in a roll of £5 notes in Wool worths’ Cuba Street shop. Later he admitted it was bogus. Defendant said he had recently married, and his wife’s people were under the impression he had saved approximately £lOO. He gave them this impression, and on the Friday was supposed to draw this money out of the Post Office Savings Bank. Actually his amount ii; the bank was very meagre. The police said that false complaints were serious, for in addition to causing unnecessary work they cast suspicion on perhaps innocent persons. Defendant said he lost his head and did not know what he was doing. Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., convicted him, and imposed a fine of £2 and ordered him to pay costs.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21216, 10 December 1938, Page 7
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