SUSTENANCE FRAUDS
Watersider Working Under Assumed Name Excess unemployment relief amounting to £ll/0/3 was stated to have been obtained by Joseph Stephenson Skinner, watersider, who was convicted by Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, yesterday, on three charges of making false statements under the Employment Promotion Act. He was fined £5 and costs on each charge. Mr. E. A. Selman, employment officer, said it was another case of a man drawing '• sustenance under his own name while working on the wharf under an assumed mime. ’l'he breaches were committed before accused went to Auckland, where be was now on relief work. MAN FINED £l7/10/- AT ASHBURTON By Telegraph—Press Association. Ashburton, July 30. Robert W. Parsons, labourer, was fined £l7/10/- and costs 10/- for making a false statement regarding sustenance. The defendant obtained £2O/7/- from the department while his earnings, which were declared as nil, were £3l 14/8.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 261, 31 July 1937, Page 8
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151SUSTENANCE FRAUDS Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 261, 31 July 1937, Page 8
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