LEVIES NOT PAID

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 6, 30 September 1937, Page 12

LEVIES NOT PAID

Hastings Maii Fined "It is a pity there is all this trouhle over so small an amouilt,,, remarked Mf J: Millef, S:M:, iii the Hastings Magistrate's Court When Henry U; GuliOn was prosecutfed by the Labdur Department for defaulting ih the payi uient of employinent levies due on FebruUry 1, 1936, aild May 1, 1937. It was Stated by the prosecution that, llidUgh subsequent instalmeiitS had bheii paid4 these two had betiii ignored in spite oi repeated Warningi. He had beeii pfdsbctited for a similar offeheO beftifS. Mr W. E. Bate, who entered h pleh oi ghilty on behalf of Cullen, said tbat the deieMant had suffered hardship in reCent yedfs and btien unemployed with a big family tb keep. He Was a wofthy person and the payments would defiaitely be made, He Mad bbcome mixed in his paymeiits after lUi'slaying his "dola" bobk. Cullen Was fiufed £1 With costs 10/; for the first amount and on the second he waa convieted and ordered tb cbme up iof sentence if called uptin^ t^S Magistrate intimating that,~M" wouid not be called_^pq^ if^ke"^auibunt Was paid.^v^ w* " * * _rt£_ ^ '■ * ^