FROM OPERA TO HAIR-OIL

NZ Truth, Issue 1179, 5 July 1928, Page 3

FROM OPERA TO HAIR-OIL

* (From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Auckland Representative.) HAVING through his counsel, Law- and later obtained a prbrrtissory yer Singer, pleaded hot guilty, note from the head of the firm fbr Errick Charmers, aged 47> will take £55.

his stand at the Supreme Court dn charges of obtaining money by false pretences from Robert Garrick, Stanley Arthur Hodges and one other optimistic person, all three, it is alleged, being; induced tb put their hard cash into a toilet requisite business, which the onetime operatic and dramatio organizer had embarked upon m two rooms m, Hellaby's 7BTU i I d .i n g s, Queen Street, Auckland. It was alleged by Garrick — who, after parting with -£60, signed an agreement which he thought was b_<-; s towing upon him a half-share m the business

and the proud oosition of as-

sistant manager at £4 per week — that he passed his time during the subsequent couple of weeks cleaning bottles and brushing out the office. True, he drew four weeks' salary

was extremely boring, but he was there to make the best of it. Released on bail, he reserved his defence for the Supreme Court.

Uharmers, it appears, lad told Detective (night that he had very intention of transorming his concern into t limited liability comony. , Thb money he lad obtained from the nen who read his advertisement was going to xtend the .business. So great was Charmer s' faith m the pos s i b i I ities of the facecream and hair-oil proposition that h e believed sound dividends would be paid. During the proceed j,ngs m the Magistrate's Court, Charmers, m the dock, preserved his imperturbable calm and gave i the impres-

sion that the whole affair