IMPOSING ON CHARITY

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 98, 28 April 1931, Page 14

IMPOSING ON CHARITY

"If you had been making profit out of these orders by disposing of them I would have sent you to gaol for three months," said Mr. W. H. Woodward, S.M., to Ernest Keywood when he appeared at the Magistrate's Court yesterday, charged with being a rogue and vagabond in that he had imposed on the Wellington Hospital Board. "It is a most dispicable thing to impose on these charitable institutions, but in this case you have not disposed of these orders for your own gain, so you will be sentenced to one month's imprisonment."

Sub-Inspector Lopdell said that the accused, a returned soldier, was a seaman by occupation, and had been out of work a good deal during the last three months. He had applied to the Returned Soldiers' Association, for relief and had obtained an order for 30s for board and lodging and an order for a pair of boots. During the same week the accused applied to the Hospital Board for relief and obtained an order for forty-two meals and twenty-one beds, valued at £3 3s. The police were sent for when the accused applied for relief again on 24th April. Asked for an explanation, the accused said he had not offended intentionally, -ncl had used up all the orders himself.

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