FOOD BY FALSE PRETENCE
A WOMAN FINED.
(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.")
CHRISTCHURCH, 20th July.
"I received your summons on Saturday and thanks very much for same. I am sending back the ten shillings. What is £4 13s on which to keep a home?" So wrote Charlotte Maud Morgan to the North Canterbury Hospital Board after it had served a summons charging her with obtaining food to the valud of ten shillings by means of a false pretence. Mr. Wanklyn, who appeared for the Hospital Board at the Court to-day, said the woman had written to Mrs. H. F. Herbert, a member of the board, stating that her husband was out- of work. Mrs. Herbert sent hor to the board's office, where she obtained food. Later it was found the husband had been working all the time.
The Magistrate said accused had four children. If it were not for her financial and domestic position she would be severely dealt with. She was fined £1 or three days' imprisonment.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 18, 21 July 1926, Page 11
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