POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21142, 28 March 1932, Page 11

POLICE COURT NEWS.

MONEY NOT ACCOUNTED FOR. CONVICTION OF YOUNG MAN. Pleas of guilty were entered by Kenneth Robert Douglas, labourer, aged 19, who was charged before Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., in the Police Court on Saturday with making a false statement at Kumea on July 25 to an official engaged in the administration of the Unemployment Act, and with fraudulently omitting to.account . for money received from Gerald Dj Lennane Detective-Sergeant T. Kelly stated that Lennane had given his unemployment 1 levy book and the money to Douglas, who agreed to pay the tax for him. The accused had forged the post office stamp on the counterfoil and Lennane was led to believe that the levy had been paid. Accused also bad represented that he wa3 20 years of age, and in this* s "way had obtained employment on a farm under the Unemployment Act. An amount of £6 had been obtained from the Unemploy-. ment Board, but Mr. Kelly mentioned that the accused had given satisfactory service on the farm. Douglas was fined £1 for making a false statement ,to obtain employment, and ! was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within a year for omitting to account for money received. William Moore, seaman, aged 32. pleaded guilty to stealing a pipe valued at 3s 6d and tobacco valued at Is 6d from a room in a lodging house. For accused, a solicitor said the theft was committed when Moore was under the influence of liquor. Accused was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six months. A charge of being an incorrigible rogue, having been previously convicted as ft rogue and vagabond, was admitted by Phyllis Bach, aged 37, Mr. Kelly saying that drink was the cause of the woman's conduct. Bach was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon, & prohibition order being made. Margaret Mary Young, aged 28, who pleaded not guilty to vagrancy, was convicted and remanded to appear for sentence on April 7. The police stated that the wojrnan had been frequenting hotels and "had ignored warnings. Her children had become wards of the State. The magistrate said inquiries would be made regarding the possibility of employing the woman in the country.