REFUSAL TO IMPOSE GAOL SENTENCES
I'reai Associatipn.)
Sustenance Frauds in -Dunedin MAGISTRATE S STAND
(By Telezr»ph
DUNEDIN, Last Night. Declining to impose imprisonmest. in the. first instance on charges of obtalning, sustenance money by false pretences, Mr H. W, Bundle, in the Police Court, fined 11 men a total siim of £i23 and adjdurned the charges against a. youth for 12 months conditional npon the amount involved being refunded to the department. He considered that the proper course was for the charges to be laid under the Employment ' Promotion Act, under which the penalty is a fine, in the first instance,. and not under the Justices. of the Peace Act. It might be^ he eaid, that the prosecution was entitled to proceed under the JusticeS of the Peace Act,' but there was a particular statute dealing with the matter. On Chief -Detective Young's statlng that his instmCtions were to proceod with false-pretences charges/ tho Magistrate replied: "If that.is ao; I decline to impose imprisonment in the first instance'"
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 14, 9 October 1937, Page 10
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168REFUSAL TO IMPOSE GAOL SENTENCES Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 14, 9 October 1937, Page 10
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