SUSTENANCE FRAUDS
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m - » '' Petone Man Fined £25
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j .WELLINGTON, Last Night. j .Three charges of making a false j statement of his earnings for the pur- , ipose of obtaining benefit under the Em;ployment Promotion Act were made against Edward P&rdoe in the Petone Court to-day before Mr, H. P. Lawry, S.M. The defondant did not appear. Rainsford John Pickmell, diatrict j oinployment officer in Petone, said that jon three differont weeks, when tho deifendant declarod that his earnings wero i'nil, he had actually been paid surns of £3 19s, £4 17s 6d, and £4 17s 6d i'or work he had done for S. Oppenheimor and Co. From February to May he reiceived £18 8s in sustenance payments. Mr. Lawry said that merely to order :the defendant to repay ,the monoy he jhad wrongfully received was to piace ia premium on practices of this kind. 'The defendant would be fined £25 and costs on one charge and convieted and ordered to pay costs on the other two charges.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 176, 12 August 1937, Page 15
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171SUSTENANCE FRAUDS Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 176, 12 August 1937, Page 15
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