HEAVY FINE FOR DECEIVING EMIGRANTS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2141, 6 May 1914, Page 4

HEAVY FINE FOR DECEIVING EMIGRANTS

COMPENSATIONjpR VlftTiMS, i'eutilties «f £133, with £37 16s. costs, fferc imposed b.v Sir Mm Dickinson at tow &tr«Et Pqlißo C'fturt iti Mii-teli' on lu'cdcriek Wallace Hctlteriiigtoii, pa<pa«p broker-s ageirt, Strand, charged with inducing persoiis to emigrate to the Argentine Reputjlie by falsely' reoresentiUK ilsat work 'would be t'ouiid for all oil arrival there, /lixe summonses wero taJscn out lit *,ae Board of Trade in respect of seven who booked their passage, to Jfcuiws Ayres through the de.fciidatit oit the ■ tattli of pamphlets issued ljv him, in which it was stated that .work woiild be found by the State Bureau there for ■ all immigrants. Tho wen, after hvcjitv* Olio days in the Argentine, had to applv for relief to the British Consul, and were repatriated at the expense of tho HBvctnrnent. .I'M giving his decision, the Mitgisti-atO said the defeneo set up was that the defendant had no idea he Was offendi : i:ig m what ho did. That was untrue, as it had been shown that fepresfl'ntatjves of the Emigrants' Inforrosikm Office had warned Ivita agaijist sending pejv 6011 ft' iw tho Argentine, aiid J'tis reply w ?s. "If I don't do ft, somcoiee' . eis'q Will. ' Sir John Dickinson directed that eacii of the ssven men who- w*tro fomtifaijiauts should fccelve £V& of the Wttttlty as compensation .'-"MaiicltesteiGuai'dian."