WAR PENSIONS FRAUD
MAN ADMITTED TO PROBATION (P.A.) WELLINGTON, March 17. Thirty charges of wrongly obtaining money under the War. Pensions Act and one charge of failing to disclose that, he was in employment and earning wages, were faced by Albert Kenneth Purdom, a Royal New Zealand Air Force driver, aged 31, in the Magistrate’s Court to-day. He pleaded guilty. Senior-Detective E. H. Compton said that Purdom had been paid £370 19s 8d for himself and his wife as a result of the offences which he had admitted. Counsel for Purdom said he had had matrimonial worries, and had been suffering from tuberculosis, as a result df which he had got into debt. He submitted that the accused was a seriousminded young man who could be admitted to probation on condition that he make restitution at 30s a week. Remarking that the amount involved was large, Mr J. L. Stout. S.M., admitted Purdom to probation for three years, but stipulated that the money be repaid at the rate of £2 a week.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25136, 18 March 1947, Page 5
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