FALSE STATEMENT.
ILLEGAL BUBTENANOE PAY. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) ASHBURTON, Friday. Robert W. Parsons, labourer, was fined £l7 10s with costs 10s for making a false statement with regard to sustenance. Defendant obtained £2O 7s from the department while the earnings he declared nil were £3l 14s 8d on fulltime employment. USED TWO NAMEB. » FRAUD AT WELLINGTON. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. " This is another instance of a man drawing sustenance under his own name and working on the wharves under another name,” said the district employment ofilcer when Joseph Stephenson Skinner was oharged today with three offences of making false statements for the purpose of obtaining benefit under the Employment Promotion Act. Defendant wrote pleading guilty and a fine of £5 was imposed on each charge.
The Magistrate remarked in reference. to the signatures in both names that the case was bad enough to have been brought under the criminal law.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20260, 31 July 1937, Page 10
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151FALSE STATEMENT. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20260, 31 July 1937, Page 10
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