FALSE DECLARATION.
RELIEF WORKER FINED. (PRBBS 1880CUTI0K TILB JRAk ) ROTORUA, March 18. An elderly man, John Dalton, who admitted that he had obtained over three months' work on No. 5 Scheme, appeared to-day before Mr S. L. Paterson, S.Mj, charged with making a false declaration as to his means in order to obtain relief employment. Dalton who was arrested in connexion with a charge of the-theft of a child's tri-1 cycle, when searched at the police station was found to have £532 in notes' in a belt pound his waist. It was stated in Court that accused withdrew _ the money from the Post Office Savings Bank in order to qualify lor work on relief. He was stated to be a man of miserly habits, but he ; obtained a certificate from the foreman of the works that he was a worker well above the average. Dalton pleaded guilty to the theftv of the_ tricycle, and was admitted to probation for two years. On the charge of making a false declaration under tsection 3! of the Unemployment Act j he was lined £o and ordered to repay 2s 7d earned on relief. Dalton offered voluntarily to make this repayment, and the Magistrate stated that otherwise he would have fined him £2O.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20500, 19 March 1932, Page 6
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209FALSE DECLARATION. Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20500, 19 March 1932, Page 6
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