DELIBERATE FRAUD.
OLD-AGE PENSIONER
FINED £25
(BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION ) DUNEDIN, Oct. 1. An old-age pensioner named Robert Colquhoun Clarke, for a false statement to the Pensions Court regarding his'income, was fined £25. He had an income of £136, but represented that he had none.
The Magistrate characterised the action as deliberate fraud, stating that no doubt there were many abuses of the provisions ■in regard to' pensions. The pensioner had agreed to refund the amount.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 October 1924, Page 9
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76DELIBERATE FRAUD. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 October 1924, Page 9
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