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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 86, 22 September 1915, Page 2

With the credit attached ts a military uniform, and the additional attraction of stripes equivalent to the ranK of sergeant, a stranger to the district has in tha last two or three weeks been in evidence both in Pukekohe and Patumahoo and frequenting the hotels at both places he has on the stringth of the supposition that he was one of the returned wounded heroes from tte Front been "entertained" by many casual friends. Whether 01 not he was the genuine article elicited the suspician of the local police authorities, with the result that last evening he was taken into custody, and was buught up this morning at the l'ukekohe Police Court before Mr C. Koadley, J.P., on a charge of vagiancy. Sergeant Cowan explained that the accused, who was named Mervyn Bernard, had been a sergeant in the New Zoaland Veterinary Corps, but was discharged hist December as medically unlit. He bad apparently corns to Pukekohe from Auckland, and still wearing the uniform he had been responsible for creating the impression that he had been relumed lrom Kgpyt on account of illiifm;-'. Keeping in i-loSe attendance at the hotels he had been "sponging" on the public. The accused was rennnded to appear in Auckland on Friday,