FALSE DECLARATIONS

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 448, 2 June 1937, Page 6

FALSE DECLARATIONS

Employment Fund Defrauded Press Association—Copyright. i Napier, June 2. “To my mind this man just set out to beat the fund' and wits successful,” said Mr. J. Miller, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court at Napier tO-day, when Walter Stanley Terrill, service-car driver. Napier, faced five charges of falsely obtaining benefits under the Employment Promotion Act. Defendant was fined £6, with costs 10/-, on each of two charges, and ordered to come up for sentence on the others. Application for time to pay was refused.

For the Labour Department, Mr. T. G. Fielder, said that at the time of the offences Terrill was employed as a nightwatchman, receiving £3 a week. As a result of five false dteclarations he had received £7/16, to which he was not entitled. The time has gone when cashes like this can be 'treated leniently,” said the magistrate. “I don’t understand hisi explanation all. This excuse has been advanced before in too many courts. The time has gone for fining and he should be imprisoned, but I catilioti do that as the information is laid under an Act that provides only for a fine. He has defrauded the Governent of £'7/16/0 and he must repay It. He goes to jail if he can’t pay.”