BOASTED TOO SOON.
FAILURE TO PAY LEVY.
MAN FINED £3 AND COSTS. FATHER FINED AS EMPLOYER. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Thomas Cree, sen., an engineer, was to-day fined £2 and coste for employing his soil for more than a week without the authority of the Unemployment Board when the son was in arrears in the payment of his instalments of tho levy. j Thomas Gree, jun., was lined £3 and costs for failure to pay the levy within the time. David Alexander Taylor, on a similar charge, was fined £2 and costs. The magistrate, Mr. E. D. Mosley, said to Cree, jun., "There is not much to be said for you. All of us fortunate enough to be in work can help the poor chaps who are not. It is up to us, as men to help."
The prosecution said defendant had been boasting that he. did not intend to pay the levy.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 118, 21 May 1931, Page 8
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