HOSTILE MOB
FRAUD VICTIMS lEER INSURANCE OFFICIALS UGLY SCENE IN SYDNEY SYDNEY, Sunday. While detectives were investigating the affairs of the Australian Federal Life and .General Assurance Company—three officials of which are under arrest —a large crowd of people gathered outside the office and made a hostile demonstration against some of the officials. An ugly situation appeared to be imminent when the investigating officers escorted an official of the company to a motori-car, in which he was driven away amid angry shouts and jeers. Another official evaded the -crowd by leaving the building through au entrance at the back. A formidable pile of statements has already been tendered to the police by people who allege that they have lost heavily by their investments with the company, or by policies taken out with it. The amount said to be involved In the charges against the three principals arrested is more than £ 500,000.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 957, 28 April 1930, Page 9
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151HOSTILE MOB Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 957, 28 April 1930, Page 9
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