FALSE PRETENCES.
FINE IMPOSED. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, August 4. At the Magistrate’s Court to-day, William Edward Parker was charged with having attempted to obtain the sum of £l4 14s from the New Zealand Insurance Company by falsely representing that, as the result of an accident on the steamer Rama, he had been totally incapacitated and unable to work for a period. He told the company that he had done no work since the accident when, as a matter of fact, he had worked on the steamer Kennedy. A fine of £lO, which was afterwards reduced to £7, on the appeal of was imposed.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16495, 4 August 1921, Page 8
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104FALSE PRETENCES. Star (Christchurch), Issue 16495, 4 August 1921, Page 8
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