ALLEGED FRAUD.
CONCERNING THE MATERNITY BONUS,
THE CROWN'S CASE. By Teleeraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. May. 2,' 8.-10 p.m.) Melbourne, May 2. At tlio hearing of tho case against Dr. Erson and two women, charged with conspiring to defraud tho Commonwealth of money payable under the Maternity Allowance -Act, the caso for tho Crown is that in seventeen specified instances the two nurses had either made claims whero there was no birth, or had claimed where the mothers had not intended to claim. In some cases, it was alleged, they had registered the supposed births over and over again.
Regarding Dr. Erson, the Crown Solicitor stated that he had admitted that lie liad signed bonus forms in blank at the request of the nurses, but ho denied doing so wholesale. Of tho fifty birth certificates ho had forwarded to-the Registrar lio had personally attended only twenty-threo of tho cases.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1740, 3 May 1913, Page 5
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147ALLEGED FRAUD. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1740, 3 May 1913, Page 5
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