MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 260, 1 October 1940, Page 2

MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

MISCELLANEOUS CASES,

Mr H. P. Lawry. &M-, presided at: a sitting of the Magistrate & Court yesterday. . J. Hairsine was fined £1 for being found on licensed premises after hours. The police said there was no suggestion that defendant had been drinking there. The costs were 10s. R. B. '' • Reid was charged with driving ,a motor-car without due care and attention. Evidence was given that defendant’s car collided with the standaids on the pedestrian crossings in Broadway. A fine of £3 was imposed, with 31? costs. O. A. Wycherley was charged with driving at a speed which, under all the circumstances, might have been dangerous. He was also charged until not carrying a warrant of fitness for the vehicle. He was fined £3 with 10s costs on the first charge, and 10s, until 10s costs, on the second. . William James Moore (Mr A. B. Loughnan), a painter, pleaded guilty to five charges that, for the purpose of obtaining a benefit under the Social Security Act, he made a false statement to an officer concerned with the administration of the Act. Detective O. Power said that defendant was practically unemployed and had been draw- I in" a social security benefit. He was secretary of the local I s a.inters UlllOll, and drew under the Act £23 12s 5d to which he was not entitled; he did not declare the earnings (£4B 15s) he ieoeived from the Painters’ Union Mr Loughnan 6aid that defendant hacl brought up his income by the false declarations to £4 10s 6d a week. He had a family of six children and had been tempted to make the false declarations because he could not keep his family on the £4 a week allowable under the social security scheme. Hie Magistrate ordered, defendant to come up for~ sentence if called on within two years, defendant to repay the sum involved. On his efforts at repayment would depend the nature of the penalty.