GIVING BLANK CHEQUES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 200, 13 August 1908, Page 3

GIVING BLANK CHEQUES.

A BAD PRACTICE, , lelegraph.—Press Association. Wellington,. Wednesday, e iooli-Ji manner in which tradesmen unthinkingly lend themselves to proceedings which invariably end in charges of iorgvry was scathingly commented on by Jlr. McArlhur, S.M. m tine Police Court to-day. All a' person has to do, he said, is to walk H'to a s'.iop and ask for a blank cheque; He person getting the cheque forges the signature ami marches oil' to the next shop to buy goods and gets an u mount in change far exceeding the <-o«t of the purchase. l u this way one tradesman lent himself to the victimisation -of another. He often wondered that the practice was not carried on to a greater extent, considering tile opportunities given for this kind to be comnutted. Ho did not whether or not it would lie a good thing to make (lie giver of a blank cheque responsible for half tllie loss occasioned in these illegal transactions, or whether he ought not by. limbic to a'charge of aiding and abetting in the particular ease before the Court. The accused, lidward Thomas Geoi'ge Hughes (alias Saule), who i pleadwl guilty to two charges, was comill itted for sentence.