UNDESIRABLE VISITORS.
MEN WHO COMMIT FRAUDS. WARNING SENTENCES BY JUDGE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. In sentencing two prisoners for false pretences and fraud Mr. Justice Stringer made it clear at the Supreme Court that men with dubious records in Australia would have to realise that New Zealand is not a happy hunting ground for persons of their calibre. In the case of James Francis Nelliman, convicted of obtaining credit from electrical firms by representing he was starting a business and would push their particular lamps, whereas he sold them and left for Australia with the proceeds, His Honor said it was not a case for probation. The prisoner came from Australia with the deliberate intention of raiding the community In Auckland. He arrived here on April 12 and got away on Mav 5 with £2OO. T must make it plain.” said His Honor “to men of a criminal disposition in Australia, that they cannot look upon New Zealand as a happy hunting ground. A sen fence of q‘year’s imprisonment was imI ’*^ d ’senteneing Lionel Norman Haigh for false pretences and fraudl in c nection with partnership in an allegeu aoenev business, His Honor said: tfeat him in the same way I treated the other Australian gentleman; a years imprisonment.” _____
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1922, Page 5
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211UNDESIRABLE VISITORS. Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1922, Page 5
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