THE LATEST SWINDLE.
Quite the latest and smartest door-to-door swindle is being worked in some of the towns of this colonyj*and the parties may probably call at Masterton. Hence this warning: A man calls with pieces of tweed suitings, and says he supplies them on the instalment system. The cloth is good, and the prices reasonable, and he has not much difficulty in disposing of his wares, which he leaves on payment of the first instalment, usually five shillings. A few days later another man turns up, representing himself as a traveller for a firm of tailors, whose speciality is the making up of customers' own material. His prices are also exceedingly reasonable, and a bargain is invariably struck. He measures the customer in the usual way, and takes away the cloth. That is the last that is seen of it, and the same applies to tbe instalment man, who is content with the first five shillings paid.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7726, 28 March 1904, Page 3
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158THE LATEST SWINDLE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7726, 28 March 1904, Page 3
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