DEFAULTER FINED

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 121, 25 May 1933, Page 12

DEFAULTER FINED

UNEMPLOYMENT LEVIES

MAN PLEAPS HARDSHIP

"A careful check is kept and sooner or inter we'll find out who is paying and who is not," said a Labour i Department, inspector in the Magistrate's Court at Petone yesterday, when William Doyle was being prosecuted for defaulting for more than a month in tho payment of an instalment of the unemployment levy. The inspector said that Doyle had not paid any- unemployment levy since the Act came into force in 1030. The defendant was a married man with two children and had given ill-health as his excuse for the non-payment of the levy. The amount owing by him was £5 18s. A letter had been sent in November tolling the defendant that he could apply for exemption on the grounds of hardship, but he had not done this. Doyle told the Court that he had received, this letter only a few days ago, owii<~ to having changed his address. He had. not paid the levy because he did not hav*e the money. Mr. T. 15. McNeil, S.M., convicted and fined the defendant £1. ' If the defendant's position was as bad as he said it was it would be wise for him to apply for exemption, said the Magistrate. ■