SUSTENANCE FRAUDS CONFESSED
♦ MINISTER'S WARNING HEARD (nam association tilioeau.) AUCKLAND. September 10. Prosecuted under the Justices of the Peace Act, Fred Simpson admitted seven charges of false pretences, obtaining sustenance totalling £ll 14s 4d by stating that his wife had no assets when she had £560 to her credit in a pings bank. Defending counsel 6aid that after hearing the warning by the, Acting-Minister for Labour (the Hon. P. C Webb) against sustenance frauds at the Town Hall recently, Simpson called at the Labour Department's office, confessed to misrepresentation, and offered to repay the money. The Magistrate said the case was different from ordinary ones. Simpson was fined £lO on one charge and convicted on the other. t>
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22195, 11 September 1937, Page 23
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