FALSE STATEMENT

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 130, 29 November 1932, Page 9

FALSE STATEMENT

RELIEF' WORKER FINED

'When a; plea of guilty'was entered tin. behalf of Herbert Rodin, who was charged at the-Magistrate's Court today with making a false, statement with the object of misleading an officer engaged, in the administration of the ■Unemployment Act, Mr. P. H. Kinsman; :who prosecuted, said that the defendant's action had been deliberate and persistent. 1 The' defendant, saia Mr, Kinsman, had. signed an application.for employment on 17th June and. had represented that he had a wife and three children wholly dependent upon him. On this representation he was given four days' work a week. He .worked for five weeks and obtained £9 10s. An inspector called at the. .house, where the defendant stated-he was living, and the woman* who was in the house said that she was not Kbdin's wife.

Mr r J. Scott, who appeared for the defendant, said "that"^odik" was a> seaman by occupation,, "but:la'tl.-'been, out of employment for some timei He iad recently; got a ship, but. he had incurred costs amounting to not less than £100 in connection -with other Court proceedings. •• "Mr;" Scott said" that the money obtained by.Rodin from relief work had been used for the maintenance of a woman and three children. The-Magistrate (Mr: Xi Page) fined the defendant- £5- and 10s Court costs. He gave him on© month: in which to find, the money, and fixed default of payment at one- month's imprisonment. The citizens of Petone are invited to ittend' a public farewell and presentation ;o the town clerk, Mr. "W. F. Sturman, vhich will take place in the Labour Hall ;o-morrow. night, at' 8 o'clock..