FALSE REPRESENTATION

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 21, 26 January 1943, Page 4

FALSE REPRESENTATION

(P.A.) AUCKLAND, January 25. A soldier who had been decorated in the present war and mentioned |m dispatches was jointly charged with & woman before Justices of the Peace with obtaining £237 19s 6d between February 1, 1940, and September 16, 1942, from the Army Department by falsely representing that he was married and had onfe child. He was Ser-geant-Major Alexander John Grimmond, aged 32, and was charged with Helen Anne Smith.

Staff-Sergeant Burley said the pay records showed Grimmond as a married man with one child. ' Grimmond) would have received an allotment for a de facto wife if they had been living together for 12 months and, in any case, the child would have to be maintained. He understood the pair had been living together for nine or 10 months.

Pleas of guilty were entered by both the accused, who were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. .

loss to itself. It supports the, carrier and extends the range of all our landbased . defences by many hundreds of miles. • ' . . ■'

But, the writer concludes, neither the carrier alone nor the heavy bomber alone will win this war. Nor will air power alone or sea power alone. The lesson of the Pacific war is that no one arm or service its «v« enough. • ■ ■ •