CABLE REQUESTS FOR CASH.

Taihape Daily Times, 14 March 1918, Page 3

CABLE REQUESTS FOR CASH.

SENDEES-REQUIRE TO BE CAREFUL. A well-known Auckland resident received an urgent cable which read as follows: “Send to Codford Post Office £3O. Urgent.’’ This was signed with a j name of someone with whom the recipient is entirely unacquainted. Needless to add, the £3O was not forwarded. The applicant must have had a lot of faith to pay for a cable and think there were patriotic people in Auckland sufficiently simple to forward £3O to an unknown person. At thei same time there is reason to fear that this may indicate an organised system for robbing relatives o? men who have gone to fight for the Empire. One Auckland gentleman some few weeks ago received a cablegram signed by the name of his nephew. He promptly dispatcher £IG, but has sjihC/C learned that no request for money had been sent by his relative. Other cases are known where money has been sent from Auckland in answer to cables received, and it has since been learned the sums had neither been asked for or received. In the' case of the cable to-day, the request that the reply be sent to Codford Post Office, was no doubt designed to give the impression that the applicant is in Codford Hospital. The safest plan would be to send any money to relatives at the front through some official channel.