FALSE DECLARATIONS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 71, 10 April 1937, Page 6

FALSE DECLARATIONS

-Press Association.)

Penalty Relief Worker Will Remember

( By Telegraph—

DUNEDIN, Last Night. It will be some years before Johu Keid is allowed to forget that he made a number of false declarations under fche Employment Act. He pleaded guilty in the police court this morning to flve charges under the Act. Ghief Detective Young, who prosecuted, said that defendant was on relief work. He had made eight false declarations but was being charged in re"spect to only five offences. He failed to disclose that his wife was working. She had been in regular employment since December. "Defendant received relief amounting to £98 17s in excess of what he would have g'ot if he had made^ a truthful statement," said Detective Young. Mr. O. G. Stevens, who appeared for defendant, said that there were somo anomalies in connection with this case • and asked the Magistrate to take that fact into consideration. He added that Reid was an lmperial soldier and had been a member of the Cameron Highlanders for 20 years. He had been offered work 'for three hours a week. Commenting that the amount involved was substantial the Magistrate, Mr. H. W. Bundle, fiued Keid £20 and costs on each of the four charges to be paid at the rate of five shillings per week, He was convieted only on the fifth charge.