RESTITUTION ORDERED.
A PENSION CASE. (By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.") CHRISTCHURCH, this day. In the Magistrate's Court yesterday, Ernest William Claydon pleaded guilty to two charges of making false declarations to the War, Pensions Department, it being stated that he had received £26 to which he was not entitled. The defendant pleading that he was in poor circumstances at the time and was now out of work, the magistrate took a lenient view, convicting and dis-. charging him on one count, and on the other ordering him to come up for sentence if called on, a condition being that he made restitution at the' rate of five shillings a week, to be increased to ten shillings when defendant was in work and earning £3 10/ a week or more.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 237, 6 October 1926, Page 11
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128RESTITUTION ORDERED. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 237, 6 October 1926, Page 11
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