OFFER OF TOBACCO

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 101, 23 January 1935, Page 10

OFFER OF TOBACCO

Man Charged at Dunedin By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, January 22. Consequent upon advertisements appearing in Invercargill, Oamarti, ami Tiinaru newspapers offering liquidation stocks of tobacco at prices below manufacturing costs, the advertiser, giving a Dunedin post ollice box as his address for orders, Ellwood Cuthbertson, aged 25, was charged at the Magistrate's Court this morning with obtaining £2 fi-Qiu David Wallace Cochrane at Invercargill by falsely representing that he had tobacco for sale. The police, in asking for a remand, said that Cuthbertson was released from Paparua prison on January 8 after serving a sentence for false pretences. He came to Dunedin and advertised in several outside papers a liquidation sale of tobacco stocks at prices 35 per cent, below cost. He opened a bank account under an assumed name and secured a post office box under another name. A number of people in country districts had forwarded orders with money but had received nothing. Counsel said that another version would be nut before the court at the proper time. The whole of the money' sent was intact, and those participating would lose nothing. The magistrate allowed bail on condition that accused’s registered mail was handed Io tiie police and the moneyin (lie bank placed on trust pending tiie hearing.