JAIL FOR £346 N.Z. PENSION FRAUD
WELLINGTON, June 4. Because he had failed to furnisL correct returns of income, William Cleaver,. aged 65, a pensioner, was overpaid by £246 by the War Pensions Department during the period between September, 1944, to February, 1948.
i nis was stated in the Magistrate’s Court to-day when Cleaver pleaded guilty to 33 charges involving breaches of the Pensions Regulations. He was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment by Mr H. J. Thompson. S.M. The police stated that the accused had declared his income had been nil, whereas during the period concerned he had been working regularly on the wharves at Auckland and Wellington, and had earned altogether £789 4s 3d.
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Grey River Argus, 5 June 1948, Page 8
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