SUSTENANCE CASES.
DUNEDIN AIEN SENTENCED.
Per Press A scoria Don. DUNEDIN, J ill v 5
Four men who admitted 40 charges involving sustenance frauds on Friday—William Albert Sutherland, Douglas Robert Forrester; AndrewLee Baird and Hugh AY ilsnn Gray—were to-day sentenced to three days’ imprisonment, which they have already served while on remand, and were admitted to probation for twelve months. Air H. AA r . Bundle, S.AI., also directed that they should make restitution of the money secured by the false declarations.
The ATagistrate said' that the legislature did not provide imprisonment as a penalty if the charge were made under the Unemployment. Act. A number of charges had been brought under that Act and, as far as the Court was concerned, those were the first brought under the Justices of the Peace Act.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 183, 5 July 1937, Page 2
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133SUSTENANCE CASES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 183, 5 July 1937, Page 2
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