FRAUD CHARGE
UNDER ‘UNEMPLOYMENT ACT. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, June 18. Before Magistrate Mosley, three men, described as relief workers, were charged with obtaining money by fraud, from the Unemployment Board, and were ordered to refund wages which they ihad drawn from the Boar.d, in default seven to fourteen days imprisonment. In the worst case one man was the owner of a large glasshouse growing tomatoes and his wife had £IOOO of u n incu mbere d property.
Tbe Magistrate said the Court would not put ,un with these frauds while the country was in such a parlous state. In future the penalties would be heavier.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1931, Page 5
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107FRAUD CHARGE Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1931, Page 5
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