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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 195, 3 September 1937, Page 6

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-Press Association.)

Man for Trial on Counterfeiting Charge

(By Telegraph-

WELLINGTON, Last Night. The case against Charles Alfred Eimmers on two chargbs of forging docnments purportimg to be £5 Resferve Bank notes was continued before Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday afternoon. Muriel McMillau, a saleswoman employed by an Auckland firm of jewellers, William E. Mardson, motor garagee proprietor of Wellington, and Gilbert Harold Trenray, storeman at an Auckland garage, said in evidence that the accused paid for goods with notes which were found to be forgeries. Phillip Wallace Hector, an offieer of the Eeserye Bank, said he had examined the bank-notes produced. They were not printed on genuine paper. The date on the notes was omitted. The word "governor" was omitted. There were numerous small differences in the printing, on both front and back of the note. The watermark was not genuine. The notes were made of two pieces of paper instead of one. JDetective H. E. Campin said he found photographic, and process material in a shed oceupied by the accused. Charles Moore, a process engraver, of Wellington, said he supplied pieces of zinc to the accused, who' said his son wanted to make some Christmas ^Detective W. J. McPhee said that the accused had denied knowledge of the forgerie3, and said that a man named Burkett had had the use of his shcd. -,.i Eimmers pleaded not guilty, and was committcd to the Supreme Court for trial.