FALSE STATEMENT.
SUSTENANCE MAN'S OFFENCE,
;■ . .. « "ROBBING THE POOR BOX."
"What you have been doing really amounts to robbing the poor box, for the money collected by taxation for sustenance i£, in effect, a fund for the needy," said Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., to Charles Alfred Harvey, who was charged in the Police Court yesterday with making a false The inspector of the Labour Depart* ment, who prosecuted, said Harvey had been in Tcceipt of sustenance, and had to make weekly declarations. For four weeks he declared his earnings had been nil, whereas they had been .£4 4/ for three weeks, and £3 10/ for the other week. He received £5 8/ as sustenance that he was not entitled to. Harvey told the magistrate he had three children, and needed the money to buy them clothes, while he also had a divorce case pending. He had on sustenance for three years. ~V i
Harvey was fined £3 and costs,
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 193, 15 August 1936, Page 16
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158FALSE STATEMENT. Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 193, 15 August 1936, Page 16
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