TEMPTED TO COME TO NEW ZEALAND.
AFRAID IT IS A HOAX. Fifly-two Blackpool Corporation tramway men who about fix or feren weeks agn signed agree >tier. ls to come to New Zealand on templing terms, it re now afraid they have been hoaxed. The ofl'ers were made to them by a person who said he. was authorised by a wellknown electric company. The men paid Is 6d each to be medically examined, and .signed a^rccinetitr; bearing sixpenny stamps, for which they also paid. They were told they would i-ail from (Jravesci.d on Kr-pt. 24. and many of them #aye up their positions and arranged to sell their goods. The man they had agreed with left the town, and the i-hc-trie company repudiate? the busings. The men sirs buoying thpmsulves tij) w tii ill" hope that "it may bo sunie other uuinpiiiiy.' 1
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7238, 26 October 1901, Page 4
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142TEMPTED TO COME TO NEW ZEALAND. Star (Christchurch), Issue 7238, 26 October 1901, Page 4
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