PENSION FRAUD
A SERIOUS OFFENCE
HAMILTON, Oct. 24
At the - Magistrate’s Court, Reginald Dempsey, a miner, of Glen Afton, was charged with obtaining an insta’mor.t under a pension by false pretences. Evidence was given that accused way in i crept cf a pension, which was granted conditionally on his being unemployed, but he chew an instalment while employed at Glen Afton collieries at a pound a day. The Magistrate said the cffer.ee was .serious, but as the charge was 'fie first of its kind, and having regard to accused’s health, lie adm.ttecl b in to probation for a year.—P.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9845, 25 October 1924, Page 6
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99PENSION FRAUD Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9845, 25 October 1924, Page 6
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