HE ALTERED HIS POTATO TALLY.
BORLAND MUST SERVE THREE MONTHS IN GAOL. Sacks of newly-dug potatoes dotted a paddock at Lincoln. They looked good to the eyes of Arthur Reginald Borland, for they represented so much remuneration for his digging. At the end of the day he counted them up, but decided to add over a score more to the total, not by slow’ digging, but by the easier process of mental gymnastics. The feat accomplished, he presented his “tally” to his employer, Ernest A. Smith, and was paid 30s in excess of what he was entitled to. The feat has landed him in for three months’ imprisonment with hard labour. Borland was charged at the Magistrate’s Court to-daj' with that on July 2, with intent to defraud, he obtained from Ernest A. Smith the sum of 30s by a certain false pretence. He pleaded guilty. Chief-Detective Gibson said that Borland was a married man, 32 years of age, and had six previous convictions for false pretenC.es and forgery. The officer detailed the manner in which the present -offence was committed. Borland pleaded that he was a married man, and had a very young child. He’ had a job to go to if he were given probation. The Magistrate: Three months' imprisonment with hard labour.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17915, 3 August 1926, Page 8
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215HE ALTERED HIS POTATO TALLY. Star (Christchurch), Issue 17915, 3 August 1926, Page 8
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