CONFIDENCE TRICK
NEW ZEALANDER THE VICTIM
SYDXKY. Nov. 8. It seems strange that so many New Zeulanders should he the victims of confidence tricksters in Sydney. Another instance lias just occurred, and it is worth recounting if only as a warning: to others. r l lie latest victim met an affable and apparently affluent stranger in the city, and the stranger asked the New Zealandtr it he were looking for a job. The New Zealander, thinking he was in luck’s way, promptly answered in the affirmative, whereupon the stranger said that he was the owner of a cane farm at Bundaberg. in Northern Queensland. “I would like to give you a job there, he said, blowing smoke rings towards the ceiling. “How would you like a good i<tb on a cane farm at Buiulaberg?” “ Wlmt they make cane chairs out of?” asked the New Zealander. “ No.” came the reply. “Cane that you eat —sugar cane. You cut ' the cane down and send it to the mill. The mill squeezes the sugar out. and there you are. All von have to do is to collect the money for the sugar. How do yon like that? ” “ l think I will take it on.” said the New Zealander. “Good,” said the Bundaberg cane farmer. “ Good. I want a reliable man like you.” So, in the course of a few hours the New Zealander was prevailed upon to buy a railway ticket for Brisbane, and then the cane farmer tumbled in his pockets, and found that he had no
ready money. He wanted to huv some implements very badly, he said. The New Zealander readily made a loan to his prospective employer, rather glad to he on such terms of financial familiarity. Later the New Zealander left for Brisbane and arrived there with exactly two shillings in his pocket. The cane if'armcr from Bundaberg did not appear at the time and place appointed. and the visitor found himself completely stranded. Almost destitute and very unhappy, the man walked hack to Sydney, hut before lie left Brisbane, he told his story to the detectives. As a result of their inquiries the police have made an arrest.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 November 1928, Page 2
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