SUSTENANCE FRAUD
MAORI FINED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, September 5. > Failure to disclose his war veteran’s allowance of £l3O a yeai’ for himself and his wife when making returns in connection with claims for sustenance under the Employment Promotion Act at New Plymouth, between July 15, 1937, and April 5, 1938, cost a Maori, Tuakana Tawhai, a fine of £55 14s sd, in the Magistrates’ Court today, when he appeared before Mr W. H. Woodward, S.M., and pleaded guilty. The amount of the fine was the sum of money received as sustenance to which defendant was not entitled by reason of his other income, which had not been disclosed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1938, Page 3
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110SUSTENANCE FRAUD Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1938, Page 3
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