“DELIBERATE FRAUD”
Money by False Pretence for Relief Work Three mouths’ imprisonment with Hard labour was the sentence imposed by Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, yesterday, on John Bourne Bayliss, driver, aged 30, who pleaded guilty to three charges of obtaining money by false pretence from the Lalwur Department. Detective-Sergeant. W. Kane said that Bayliss reported to the Labour Department that he was unemployed when he was actually employed as a motordriver and earning £4/11/8 a week. The total amount received by accused from the department was £54/13/8. “You are guilty of deliberate fraud and robbery over a long period,” said the magistrate. “You have defrauded your fellow men. It just shows what sorf of a man you are.”
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 189, 7 May 1937, Page 8
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