COURTS AND OFFENCES

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14233, 5 March 1914, Page 3

COURTS AND OFFENCES

VALUELESS CHEQUES. (Per United Press Association.’! WELLINGTON, March 4. At. the Magistrate’s Court,' Harry Wynne Bartog was sent to gaol for -two months on a charge of obtaining money from Samuel Gilmer, of the Royal Oak Hotel,, by valueless cheques. The accused had posed as Hr. Hartog, who was going to the Medical Congress at Auckland, hut he never appeared there. The police declared that Hartog was well known, having twice been convicted in Victoria. BREACH OP AWARD. NEW PLYMOUTH, March 3. Nippert Bros,, , painters, were to-day fined a nominal sum for employing men on a Saturday,afternoon. The men arc to he proceeded against.