PENSION FRAUD
BY MAORI EX-SOLDIER, (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) WAJRiOA, Dec. 12. At the Magistrate’s Court this afternoon, a Maori returned soldier pleaded guilty to making a false declaration regarding his earnings. Accused is a married man with a wife and a large family. He receives a pension of £6 15s weekly. The case was brought by the Department as a warning. Magistrate Harper characterised the offence as mean ‘ and contemptible in the extreme. The accused should go to gaol, as no doubt there were several similar cases elsewhere. His Worship inflicted a fine of £5 and costs, and ordered the restitution to the Department of £lO 17s lOd, the total sum to be deducted by the Department from his future pensions.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1929, Page 3
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122PENSION FRAUD Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1929, Page 3
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