SUSTENANCE FRAUDS

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 6, 2 October 1937, Page 7

SUSTENANCE FRAUDS

False Declarations At Dunedin

Uy Telegraph—Press Association

Dunedin, October 1

“There are 1‘- persons charged today with 81 offences, the total amount in actual cash obtained being £137. Nearly all these cases have arisen since publicity was given to the seriousness of the offence and the department’s determination to suppress it,” stated Chief-Detective Young, In the Magistrate’s Court, when the hearing was commenced of a long list of charges of false pretences arising from false declarations by sustenance men.

All the cases were adjourned for Mr. 11. IV. Bundle, S.M., to consider the submissions of counsel hhat the charges should be laid under the Employment Promotion Act, which provided for a monetary penalty, and not the Crimes or the Justices of the Peace Act. The police stated that tffie total number of cqses in the Dominion to June was 1547, the amount involved being £7955.

The mimes of the accused, with the amounts involved, are: Harold Robert Anderson, £2/9/9; Janies Leonard Boyd, £1: George Henry Brook. £l6 10/-; Thomas William Hall, £4/8/3; Victor Charles Ritchie, £3l/3/11: Edward Wilson Stiffens, £1; Harold Walter Larkins. £7/2/-; Alexander Leek Smith, £3; John Edward Francis Hodgson, £22/8/-; George Kerr, £22/14/9; Arcliibald Benjamin Harman, £7/19/3; Leonard Arthur Maughan, £.19.