PAYING THE LEVY

Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1931, Page 5

PAYING THE LEVY

POST OFFICE KEPT BUSY,

FURTHER “PROSECUTIONS PENDING.

During the past few days theer havo been many callers at the various Post Offices in the Dominion for the purpose of paying their March instalment of the Unemployment levy. It is possible that their action has been prompted by the publication of details regarding prosecutions in Wellington, ‘Wanganui, Palmerston North, Timaru and elsewhere for non-payment, or t may be that the matter has merely been overlooked. Whatever the reason, it is satisfactory to know prosecutions will be necessary in comparatively few cases. Two persons convicted in Wellington for failing to register were fined £‘2 each, and prosecutions in other places on charges of failing to register, failing to pay the levy; and employing a man who had, not paid the levy, resulted in fines of from £1 to £2 and costs. In addition there is the statutory fine of 6d in cases of default for more than one month: in the payment of the levy. .

In one provincial centre the payments reached 92 in one day, and in the four cities the record totals for a day were well over the hundred. Many of these were payments in advance, and others were belated payments of the December levy.

Further prosecutions are pending, and those who have overlooked the duty imposed upon them by the Unemployment Act Would be wise to fulfil that duty as promptly as possible, -