EMPLOYMENT OFFICER SENT TO PRISON
ADMISSION OP EIGHTEEN OFFENCES
(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) GISBORNE. November 5. Remarking that in various parts of the Dominion men had been sent to gaol for defrauding the Unemploy men. Fund, Mr Justice Ostler, in the Supreme Court this morning, said that he could not do other than to impose a sentence of imprisonment on an official of the department who had also participated in a raid on the fund. The prisoner was Percy Fulton, formerly Employment Officer at Gisborne, who pleaded guilty to 11 charges of making false documents and seven of false pretences, whereby he obtained £l3 5s from the Unemployment Fund. He was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22243, 6 November 1937, Page 12
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