FRAUD ALLEGED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 234, 2 October 1937, Page 16

FRAUD ALLEGED.

MEN ON SUSTENANCE. OVER 1500 CASES UP TILL JUNE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Friday. "There are 12 persons charged to-day with 81 offences, the total amount in actual cash obtained being £137, and nearly all these cases have arisen since publicity was given to the seriousness of the olTcncc and the Department's determination to suppress it," said Chief-Detective Young in the Police Court when the hearing was commenced of a long list of charges of fake pretences arising from false declarations by sustenance men.

All the ca.ses were adjourned for Mr. H. \V. Bundle, S.M., to consider the legal submissions of counsel that the charges should be laid under the Employment Promotion Act, providing for a money penalty, and not the Climes Act. or Justice* of the Peace Act. The police stated that the total number of eases in the Dominion to June was 1.347, the amount involved being £79.">.">. The names of the accused charged to-day. and the amounts involved arc as follow: —Harold Robert Anderson, £2 9/9; James Leonard Boyd, £1; Oeorjre Henry Brook, £10 10/; Thomas William Hall, £4 8/3; Victor Charles Ritchie. £31 3/11; Edward Wilson Stiffens, £1; Harold Walter Larkins, £7 2/; Alexander Leek Smith, £3: John Edward Francis Hodgson. £22 8/: fieorire Kerr, £22 14/9; Archibald Benjamin Harninn. £7 19/3; Leonard Arthur Manghan. £19.