SUSTENANCE FRAUDS
ACCUSED FINED ON FOUR CHARGES. WANGANUI, April 4. Four charges of making false statements for the purpose of obtaining sustenance relief were preferred against John Patrick Behin when he appeared before Mr J. H. Salmon, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court, Wanganui, today. Behin was fined £6 with costs, on each of three charges, and £4 with costs, on the fourth charge, which concerned an offence committed at Wellington.
Detective-Sergeant J. K. Robertson said three of the charges concerned offences at Christchurch in 1936 and the fourth an offence committed at Wellington in the following year. Behin sold out a fish business and went selling jewellery, but did not notify his earnings. He was married, with no family, and the total amount involved was £22/13/9.
Behin explained that he was in debt at the time and had been endeavouring to liquidate these arrears. “It has been repeatedly pointed out that this sustenance system calls for the utmost good faith on the part of those, who benefit by it,” said the magistrate. “The sustenance system is open to abuse. A man must not be allowed to profit by misstatements made in order to obtain relief.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1938, Page 8
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