£l70 GAINED BY FRAUD
Relief Worker’s False Statements By Telegraph—Press Association. Gisborne, September 21. A single man, Frederick Linsley, aged 47, admitted before Mr. R. M. Walton, S.M., this morning having defrauded the Employment Department of £l7O by falsely representing that he was a married man with four children. The police stated that accused had repeatedly declared he was married, first stating that he had three children, and then increasing his family by another. In addition to relief funds he had been drawing a soldier’s pension of 10/- a week. Accused stated that he made the statements because a single man could not get a fair hearing. He was fined £2 and costs on each of two charges.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 306, 22 September 1936, Page 11
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118£l70 GAINED BY FRAUD Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 306, 22 September 1936, Page 11
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