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FRAUD ON RELIEF FUNDS [Pee United Press Association.] GISBORNE, September 21. A single man, Frederick Linsley, aged 47 years, admitted before Mr Walton. S.M., this morning having defrauded the Employment Department of £l7O by falsely representing that he was a married man with four children. The police stated that accused re* Eeatedly declared that he was married, rst stating that he had three children, and then increasing his family by another. In addition to relief funds he had been drawing a soldier’s pension of 10s a week. Accused stated that he had made the statements because a single man, couldn’t get a fair hearing. He was fined £2 and costs on each of two charges.
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Evening Star, Issue 22449, 21 September 1936, Page 8
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119FAMILY FOR THE OCCASION Evening Star, Issue 22449, 21 September 1936, Page 8
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