SPURIOUS NOTES
POLICE STATEMENT
AT LEAST ONE THOUSAND CIRCULATED.
AUCKLAND, May 12
.Four of* the suspects arrested in Auckland in connection with the uttering of forged LI Hank of New South Wales notes again appeared on remand at Mi Police Court. Each was admitted to hail at a surety of £SOO. The four were Percy Short, aged 51, an Australian showman, his son, Percy John Al’Kcnzic Short, aged 20, Maurice Goodman, aged 33, an English commercial traveller, a,nd Hariy Torpv, aged 40, a showman. Detective-Sergeant Kelly (producing a bundle of spurious notes) ; A number of these have been identified. At least one thousand of these counterfeit notes have been circulated, and it is worth noting that circulation has stopped since these men have been in custody-
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 May 1931, Page 3
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126SPURIOUS NOTES Hokitika Guardian, 15 May 1931, Page 3
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