FINE OF £25.
CASE CONCERNING SUSTENANCE Per Press Association. WELLINGTON. Aug. 11. Three charges of making a false statement of his earnings for the purpose of obtaining benefit under the Employment Promotion Act were made against Edward Pardoe in the Petone Court to-day before' Mr 11. P. La wry, S.M. Defendant did not appear. Rninsford John Pickwell, district employment officer in Petone, said that on tliree different weeks, when defendant declared that his earnings were nil, he had actually been paid sums of £3 19s, £4 17s Gd, and £4 17s 6d for work he had done-for S. Oppenhoimer and Co. From February to May he received £lB 8s in sustenance payments. Air I, a wry 6aid that merely to order the defendant to repay the money he had wrongfully received was to place a premium on practices of this kind. The defendant would l>e fined £25 and costs on one charge and convicted and ordered to pay costs oil the other two charges.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 216, 12 August 1937, Page 2
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164FINE OF £25. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 216, 12 August 1937, Page 2
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