Declared Income Nil,"Worked On Docks
WELLINGTON. Sal. (P.A.) Because he had failed to furnish correct returns of income, William Cleaver, 65, pensioner, was overpaid by £2*l6 by the War Pensions Department during the period September, 1944, to February, 1948.
This was stated in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday when Cleaver pleaded guilty to 33 charges involving breaches of the pensions’ regulations. He was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment by Mr H. J. Thompson, S.M.
The police stated that accused had declared his income had been nil, whereas, during the period concerned, he had been working regularly on the wharves at Auckland and Wellington and earned altogether £789/4/3.
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Northern Advocate, 5 June 1948, Page 2
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