OFFICIAL MISLED
OFFENCE BY PAINTER SUSTENANCE OVERDRAWN [BY TELEGRAPH —rRESS association] PALMERBTON NORTH, Monday. Charged with obtaining sustenance by misleading an official, under the Employment Promotion Act, John Barnes, painter, pleaded guilty in tho Magistrate's Court to-dny. A representative of the Employment Department stated that defendant had been paid sustenance, at the rate of £1 13s a week from June 13 to July 18, although ho had earned £l2 in that period. He had declared his earnings as £3 6s 6d, thereby overdrawing by £5 4s. This was defendant's second offence. On May 24 he was convicted and ordered to refund £ls.
The magistrate to-day imposed a fine of £lO, saying that this Bort of thing must stop.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22524, 15 September 1936, Page 14
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