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PAINTER'S SECDHD OFFENCE [Per United Press Association.] PALMERSTON N., September 14.’ Charged with obtaining sustenance payment by misleading an official under the Employment Promotion Apt, John Barnes, a painter, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court. A representative of the Employment Department stated that the defendant had been' paid sustenance at the rate of 33s weekly from June 13 to July 18, and though he had earned £l2 in. that period, he had declared his. earnings as £3 6s 6d, thereby overdrawing by the sum of £5 4s. This was the defendant’s second offence. On May 24 he was convicted and ordered to refund £ls. The Magistrate to-day imposed a line of £lO, saying that this sort of thing had to stop.
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Evening Star, Issue 22443, 14 September 1936, Page 10
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123FALSE DECLARATION Evening Star, Issue 22443, 14 September 1936, Page 10
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