SOLD FURNITURE TWICE
| “GET RICH QUICK” PLAN FAILS An endeavour to realise twice on £SO worth of furniture resulted in Robert Craig Reid, aged 40, being placed on probation for two years, at the Police Court this morning. “He obtained £SO on furniture from an Auckland loan company,” said Chief-Detective Hammond. “He then sold it to George Walker for £57 and left for Hastings, where he has since been living under an assumed name.” For Reid, Mr. Alan Moody said that prisoner had a good billet in Hastings, where he was earning £6 a week. He would make full restitution. Reid, was placed on probation for two years. Prisoner was also charged with fail- ! ure to keep up payments of 10s a week | which had been ordered by the State ! in respect of a daughter who was in : the charge of the Education Depart- ] ment | On this charge Mr. J . TI. Luxford, 1 S.M., sentenced Reid to one month’s ! imprisonment, to be suspended on conJ dition that payment, with the arrears, ; was made.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 411, 20 July 1928, Page 13
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