Sydney Showman
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Wild Islands Men And A
ON October 15, Barney Bergin, a Sydney man connected with the show busi ness, was committed for trial on a ;harge of stealing £750 from Oscar Nord nan, of Tahiti. The money was sent to Bergin, in Sydney, as first payment on imusement park equipment, which was ;o be shipped in August, 1949, to Nordman )r his associates, in Tahiti.
Bergin did not ship the equipment, as promised; and it is' alleged that later, when pressure was put upon him, he tried to ship some other —and much cheaper—equipment, which had not been ordered by Nordman, and which Nord nan’s Sydney advisers would not acccept.
Bergin is the man who, some weeks ago, was committed for trial on a charge of Setting money from a Sydney showman by false pretences—on his promise to ob tain for a sideshow, some wild men from Borneo. He said, when challenged, that he had sent the wild men from Borneo to a plantation near Rabaul, to be taught hygiene and Pidgin.