FALSE DECLARATION.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 July 1921, Page 5

FALSE DECLARATION.

FINE INFLICTED ON ALIEN. A J.P. INVOLVED. By Telegraph.—Press Assoe|anuiu Auckland. Iwt Night. I At the Supreme Court, 10-day a Dalj ma tian named Jure Costani. ii was fined I £4O for making a false to j secure naturalisation as a British subP eCt * The Crown Prosecutor' said the man | declared he had resided in the Dominion | for six years.' whereas he had beer ! only one or two months.. He could not i speflk English and did not realise the I .seriousness of the offence. The Justice j of the Peace before whom the declare- ; tion was made was a. store-keeper whom !he saw daily. ' His Honor id he thought that proi bably J.T. s were a great deal too cas- | ual and failed to impress ihe fact that | a solemn declaration was being made, The Crown Prosecutor f-tid he hail i reason for believing that the offence j was not an isolated one The question I of what action should be taken in re- [ gard to the J.P. was und r cowsiderai tion. His Honor, in imposing a fine, took i into consideration the fact that prisoner had recently arrived m Austria and found a J.P. perfectly ready and willing to make himself a party toj fraud, and signed and transmitted t<fc‘ the department for prisoner’s benefit a declaration that he had known prisoner, for five years. The authorities would' doubtless take w’hat action they thought fit in regard to the J.P