UNEMPLOYMENT TAXES
SEVERAL PROSECUTIONS NON-PAYMENT OF LEVY 9 The plea that they were out of work and unable to meet the unemployment levy was advanced by several men who were charged in the Police Court yesteiday with failing to pay the May instalment of the levy. The magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt, advised these defendants to apply for exemption, stating that they would be saved trouble if they followed his advice. The charges against Thomas Dunn, Frank Parker, Joseph Allen Parkinson and John Fraser Shand, were adjourned for a fortnight. Two other men, Francis O'Brien and Andrew Saunders, were convicted and discharged. Ernest Walter Briggs was fined £1 tor making a false return to the TJnemployment Board. A similar penalty was imposed on Steve Ozich, land agent, for failing to deduct the emergency unemployment charge from the wages of his staff.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21326, 29 October 1932, Page 12
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