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LABOUR SECRETARY CHARGED- ; CONTEMPTIBLE THEFT ALLEGED. * (per Press’^Association —' Copyright.), ... CHRISTCHURCH, Pleading not guAty. to seven charges of forgery S-and seven of . uttermg, Herbert. Edwin Barnsley-, aged 52, an accountant, relief worker, and date secretary and' treasurer- to the Labour Defence League, faced his trial this morning before.-Mr Justice Ostler, and . ]t was alleged that Barnsley had accepted, money from the- Mayors relief fund ■ for distribution to depend- j ents of- men imprisoned as ;th©,resut of disturbances in M-ay, and thaL he had forged the . signatures.;of .seven women .without giving .them Wit money, 3s.in. each case, and returned th© forged receipts to-.the City Couuci, tendering them as genuine recc.pts. The-ease is proceeding,
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 October 1932, Page 6
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113FORGED RECEIPTS Hokitika Guardian, 27 October 1932, Page 6
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