SPURIOUS COINS
RELIEF WORKERS CHARGED
Newspaper sellers reported to the police on Saturday night that they had received spurious shillings and flor.ins, a«d_the same night Detectives Hayhurst and Smith arrested two relief workers, William George Hart, aged 43, and William Babbage, aged 47, on a charge of uttering a counterfeit The men were brought before Mr. W. F Stilwell, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today and remanded until October 4. Each was allowed bail in the sum of £25 and one surety of £25. ■~,.,« Revell said that both men were residents of Wellington. They had issued a '-number of coins to paper sellers on Saturday evening, and the detectives had found in their possession moulds for the making of coins.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 80, 2 October 1933, Page 10
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120SPURIOUS COINS Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 80, 2 October 1933, Page 10
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