MAORI UNEMPLOYMENT FUNDS

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 21034, 9 December 1933, Page 7

MAORI UNEMPLOYMENT FUNDS

manager charged with FALSE PRETENCES (rassa association tjclegkau.) GISIJORNE, December 8. This morning' Detective McLeod arrested Charles Goldsmith, manager of the Waispu Farmers' Co-operative Company, and in making application for a remand the detective stated that orotracted enquiries were entailed. The charge preferred against Goldsmith was that, "on or about Jun«e 6, 1933 at Tikitiki, with intent to de fraud, he obtained from H. J. Fletcher, postmaster at Tikitiki, the sum of £BO, the property of the New Zealand Government Maori Unemployment Relief Fund, by means of a certain false pre tence namely, by falsely representing that one Wi Matahiki had been employed on certain works undei the Maori Unemployment Fund. The accused appeared before the onnvt at Port Awanui this morning 3 wS rananded untill January 17. The remand was granted on the detective's application and with the concpnt of the accused. In making the application Detective McLeod stated that considerable enquiries had yet to be made, necessitating the remand of the accused, who had Promised to afford every assist«r ftoifld*bTteSfto " 'mbrtrntw amount as many hundreds of pounds involvld Bail was allowed in the sum of £SOO in accused's own recolnisancc together with one surety - -»o equal amount.