FALSE BENEFITS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 191, 30 August 1937, Page 6

FALSE BENEFITS

Two Cases Before Court in Napier MAGISTRATE'S COMMENT "These informations should have been laid under the Crimes Act, or the Justices of the Peace Act, depending on the amount obtained. There has been ample warning for a long time now, and I think the time is past when the informations should be laid under the Employment Promotion Act, as there is no power to imprison," said Mr J. Miller, S.M., in the Napier Magistrate 's Court this morning when several cases of obtaining false benelit under the Employment Promotion Act came before him. In two cases brought by SeniorSergeant A. Pender, Artliur Owen, of Napier, labourer, was fined £5 with 10/costs on each count, the Magistrate uommenting that had the charges been laid under the Crimes Act he should have sent him to prison. ' These cases are of men on the waterfront, and were detected as the result of a special investigation into their earuings," said Mr G. Satherley, who appeared for the Labour Department, as he brought several additionai cases. Frederick Rupert Holder, of Napier, carpenter, was fined £5 and £2 respectively on two charges; Walter Edgar Goodall, of Napier, labourer, was fined £3 with 10/- costs on one charge only, and ^Villiam Frederick Wise, of l'ort Ahuriri, was fined £5 on one charge and convicted aud discharged on aiiother.