Showman Sent to Gaol.
A showman, Thomas Patrick Cuttie, aged 54, who sold “V” signs on the pretext that the money was for a “soldiers’ comforts fund,” when the receipts were for his own benefit, appeared in the Magistrate’s Court, Hastings, yesterday, on a charge of being a rogue and a vagabond. He was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. Sheepskins Inquiry. “The Government would welcome the addition of the member for Stratford as' a member of the Sheepskins Inquiry Committee and I will arrange for an official invitation to be extended to him,” said the Minister of Marketing, Mr Barclay, replying, amid laughter, to an urgent question by Mr Morgan Williams (Government, Kaiapoi). Mr Morgan Williams asked whether, considering that the member for Stratford. Mr Polson, had expressed the opinion that he considered the report to be prepared by the Sheepskins Inquiry Committee would be useless, the Minister would consider appointing Mr Polson as a member of the committee in order to ensure that the report submitted would be acceptable to him,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 October 1941, Page 4
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172Showman Sent to Gaol. Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 October 1941, Page 4
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