Y.W.C.A. "COLLECTOR" IN TROUBLE.
(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, September 14. A respectably dressed man, Henry Willoughby Joyce. 48, came before Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.M., yesterday morning charged that he obtained half a crown by means of false pretences, and was remanded. Chief Detective McMahon remarking that other charges were pending. The allegation from the police side is that Joyce iljegally joined in the Y.W.C.A. fund collection campaign. Joyce approached the committee and expressed the desire to be put on the list of collectors-, but the request was declined on tHo grounds that he was not personally known to the committee. He was subsequently seen to bo engaged in what looked suspiciously like ,the work of, collecting. Consequently Detective Scott arrested him when he had in his possession a book which was not an official collection book, indicating that he had received for the Y.W.C.A. the amount of £4 in sums ranging from 6s. down to 2s. He stat ed that it was his intention to hanc the money over to the proper quarters, but cash on him at the time amounted to only 4s. 9d.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 19897, 15 September 1913, Page 4
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