COUNTERFEIT NOTES
MAN PLEADS GUILTY. AUCKLAND, January 20. Duo to the smartness of a shop assistant the police on Jauuray 9 secured the largest haul of counterfeit banknotes ever made in New Zealand. To-day, Harry Dawson, aged 48, a hatter, pleaded guilty to possessing 470 forged Bank of New South Wales £3 notes and six other charges. In a statement accused said that lie came from Australia four years ago. He found the notes in a cigarette tin in She gutter of a city street. He kept .hem about two months before at‘cnipting to circulate them. Me cashed bout ten. He did not know the men vlio were convicted last year of a imilar offence. The accused was committed for sentence.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 January 1932, Page 3
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121COUNTERFEIT NOTES Hokitika Guardian, 27 January 1932, Page 3
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