CASE AT AUCKLAND
A £100 FINE IMPOSED
(Liy Toic-i-aph—Press Association) AUCKLAND, This Day. A fine of £100 and costs was imposed by Mr. C. R. Orr-Walker. S.M., at the Police Court today, when Joseph Hood was charged with making a false statement under the Employment Promotion Act. A Department of Labour official said that Hood registered in 1931 as a married man. In June last year he and a woman he had been living with went j to England. On his return he immediately registered for relief again, describing himself as married. At no time did Hood disclose what amount of money was held by the woman with whom he lived. He received ! £100 3s in excess of what he was eni titled to. Counsel for Hood said that Hood was j previously a ship's steward but had been unable to obtain employment for six years. "It seems to be a very deliberate case,'1 said the Magistrate, in imposing I the fine. I
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 14, 16 July 1937, Page 10
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163CASE AT AUCKLAND Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 14, 16 July 1937, Page 10
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