COURTS AND OFFENCES

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 17 August 1929, Page 5

COURTS AND OFFENCES

FAILURE TO MAKE RETURNS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Aug. 16. The duty of taxpayers to furnish thieiilr own returns of land and income instead of waiting for the Commissioner of Taxes to make a default assessment and collect the money, was exemplified in the Police Court here this morning. Archibald Aitoliison was fined £2. costs 10s and Grown Solicitor’s fee £3 3s, on a charge of failing to furnish a return of land. On charges of failing to furnish returns of income, Robert Walter Johnstone and Parker and Lawson, Ltd,, were each fined £2, costs 10s, and solicitor’s fge ,£2 2s. The magistrate said he Laid' no option Since the offenoe was proved but to convict defendants'. He would impose ■the minimum penalty in each case. The taxation Department In n d 'laid itself open to cases of this kind through not giving warning of its intention to prosecute in cases of failure to make returns. PENALTY FOR CRIME. NAPIER, August 16. In the Supreme Court Timothy John Daly, for theft from the person, was sentenced to 18 months’; Francis Walter Chapman, for receiving money known to be stolen, 12 months’ ; John Aldridge, for being a rogue and a vagabond, two months’.