TWICE UNLUCKY

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 463, 3 July 1937, Page 6

TWICE UNLUCKY

Prisoner Fined £l3

Press Association—Copyright Auckland, July 3.

“Thirteen is an unlucky number; so is Friday an unlucky daypnd this I one will be a very unlucky day -r | you,” said Mr Orr Walker, S.M., in the j Police Court to-day, when he- impos-. ed a fine of £l3 on Owen Edward I Price, father of two children, who j admitted a charge of making 13 false j statements of his earnings in order ) to receive. £ll 14s to which ho was j not entitled under the Employment I Promotion Act.

William Russell Jenkins admitts-d making one false declaration which allowed him to draw £1 15t’. He wias fined £8 10s. Additional fines were imposed as follows:—(Patrick James Scelly, £7 10s; Solomon Parkinson and Ernest Richard Elmore, £5 each; Frederick Dustin, £3. Costs amounting to 10s were entered in all cases.