HELP OBTAINED BY FRAUD.
MAN GIVEN HARD LABOUR.
" SIMPLY SHOCKING."
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)
CHRISTCHURCH, this day.
"This money is meant to be disbursed for genuine unemployed people, and to mislead the committee—it is simply shocking that these things should take place. I must look upon the offence as serious." Mr. Mosley, S.M., made these remarks this morning, when sentencing Walter Somerville, aged 30, to 14 days' hard labour for attempting to defraud the Citizens' Unemployed Committee.
The chief detective said that accused, who was. a single man without dependents, had gone to the Department of Labour and filled in a form of application for work, stating th&t he was married.
Mr. Connall said that his cient was living with a divorced woman who had a child. The man had taken them into account when, filling in the form. He had obtained no benefit from his misrepresentation. Ht was a good worker and he had a good record.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 234, 4 October 1927, Page 11
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