UNEMPLOYMENT LEVY

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 81, 2 October 1931, Page 9

UNEMPLOYMENT LEVY

DEFAULTERS FINED

Financial hardship caused through unemployment was the excuse in most cases when eleven men were charged before Mr. E. Page, S.M., to-day, with having failed to pay one or more instalments of the unemployment levy. Appearing on behalf of tho Labour Department, however, Mr. P. H. Kinsman said that there was ample opportunity for people in straitened circumstances to apply for exemption to the board, when every consideration would bo given.

On one charge William Bowes Clarkson and John Edward Condren we?c each, fined £1. Herbert William Hambly was fined 10s, and Alfred Glastonbury was ordered to pay the costs, 10s.

Frederick William Harding and Alex Sunderland, who appeared on two charges, were each fined £1 on the first and ordered, to pay tho costs, 10s on the second. Ai> order to pay the costs on each of two charges was made against James Stewart Leckie, Albert Wilfred Harris, and Samuel Victor Forsyth, and Percy Herbort Hickey was fined 10s on the first charge and ordered to pay the costs on the second.

Charged with employing for more than seven days a man who was in arrears with hia levy, the Dominion Publishing Company was fined £2. On two similar charges, George Oliver, the manager of the Arcadian Meat Company, was fined 10s on the first and ordered to pay the costs on the second.

In all eases where fines were imposed orders were also made for the defendants to pay the costs.