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- - RELIEF WORKER. CHARGED. ALLEGED FALSE- DECLARATION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Sept. 2. Herbert Parks, relief worker, was charged in the Police Court with making a false declaration to the Unemployment Board that he Avas married and living with liis wife. It was shown that defendant Avas married, but Avcnt to Australia, .returning with another woman, by whom lie had two children, lie said that he had three children, and as a result the board had been misled.
The magistrate said the proceedings were ill-advised. If the man Avere supporting the Avoman and tAA r o children he made an incorrect statement, but at the same time he Avas not living as a single man. He adjourned the case to enable the prosecution to withdraw the proceedings if it thought fit. Thomas Charles 'Smith, charged with making a statement that ne had three children Avhcn he had only two, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence.
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Hawera Star, Volume LII, 3 September 1932, Page 5
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