EARNINGS UNDERSTATED
SUSTENANCE WRONGLY OBTAINED DEFENDANT’S SECOND OFFENCE (Per United Press Association^ PALMERSTON N., Sept. 14. Charged with obtaining sustenance payment by misleading an official under the Employment Promotion Act, John Barnes, a painter, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court. A representative of the Employment Department stated that the defendant had been paid sustenance at the rate of 33s weekly from June 13 to July 18, and though he had earned £l2 in that period, he had declared his earnings as £3 6s 6d, thereby overdrawing by the sum of £5 4s. This was the defendant’s second offence. On May 24 he was convicted and ordered to refund £ls. The magistrate to-day imposed a fine of £lO, saying that this sort of thing had to stop.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22986, 15 September 1936, Page 7
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126EARNINGS UNDERSTATED Otago Daily Times, Issue 22986, 15 September 1936, Page 7
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