FALSE PRETENCES

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 35, 10 August 1934, Page 11

FALSE PRETENCES

RELIEF WORKERS' PAYSHEETS

I SENTENCE OF SIX MONTHS' | GAOL

For falsifying' pay and time sheets on the Khandallah relief works, with the result that he obtained £10 5s from the- Wellington City Council, Phillip Augustus Kcsler was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in the Magistrate's Court, today by Mr. E. Page, B.M. ' Keslor appeared on six different charges. Detective-Sergeant L. Eevell stated that the accused had becn^ employed as timekeeper on the Khandallah relief works from November 16 last to February 10 this year. He had falsified payshcets and timesheets and had included in his returns to the City Council men. who were not actually working on the job. He was a man with previous convictions. In response to a question by Mr. Page, Kesler said that he had got into financial difficulties about last January and had seen loopholes in the system of relief work returns.

Observing that Kesler had quite a substantial list of convictions for false pretences, Mr. Pago sentenced him to six months' imprisonment on one charge and ordered him to come up for sentence if called upon within two' years upon the remaining five charges.