PENALTY OF FRAUD.
RIGHT TO RELIEF WORK LOST.; • (By. Telegraph.—Press Association.) ,|V WELLINGTON, Friday..V In the Police, Court to-day • Edward George. Neel, aged 34, a; native' of .England, was! fined: £5 for/obtaining- relief work from the Unemployment; Board'iby falsely, representing himself :as ; a married man.with two children. On ; each of, four other charges he was .convicted. •The toi tal amount involved ,■ was •£4 : 17/6. • > ■ This is .the first prosecution ■• of \the kind in Wellington, arid it "was '.mentioned that through it Neel : is ineligible ,ior ; . work under thev ■unemployment eeheme.', •■;•'■' '-"•'.,•' > - p.- :>~;.--
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 156, 4 July 1931, Page 11
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