COMPANY DIRECTOR SENTENCED
£1259 OBTAINED BY FALSE PRETENCES
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, June 15.
Sentence of nine months’ imprisonment on each of three charges of obtaining sums totalling £1259 10s from -the Ministry of Works by falsely representing that claims submitted for work done were genuine, was imposed on Patricia Jeanette Flood, aged 27, a widow and company director, by Mr W. S. Spence, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court today. The Magistrate made the terms concurrent.
Flood, who pleaded guilty to the charges when she appeared on June 1, was represented by Mr J. G. Jamieson Today, Mr Jamieson, in asking for leniency, said that Flood was a first offender and that she had derived no personal gain. The Magistrate told Flood that her case had caused him a considerable amount of concern, because of her circumstances and the gravity of the charges. "There has been an element of muddlement in the business you could not capably carry on, but this was no excuse for your offences,” added the Magistrate. r ‘You must have known that what you were doing was wrong.”
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27377, 16 June 1954, Page 15
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