A PITIFUL CASE
offence by ex-soldier
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, January 23. James Murray, an ex-soldier, a married man with six children, was fined £25 for making a false statemnt to the Pensions Department. His case was a pitiful one. He is a tubercular case. His eldest child is in a similar state, two others had had scarlet fever and his wife had to undergo an operation. His pensions altogether amounted to £6 15, a week, but he represented this as his sole income, whereas he had been working for a period on commission as an insurance agent and the Department maintained that it had overpaid him £362.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 January 1931, Page 8
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109A PITIFUL CASE Hokitika Guardian, 26 January 1931, Page 8
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