SUSTENANCE FRAUDS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22819, 28 August 1937, Page 18

SUSTENANCE FRAUDS

NINETEEN PROSECUTIONS SOME- LARGE FINES FIXED More thantheusual number of prosecutions of offenders making false declarations of earnings in order to obtain benefits from the Employment Promotion Fund wero brought by the Labour Department in the Police Court yesterday. Nineteen men were fined by Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, S.M. Admitting having obtained over £66 in sustenance by submitting false statements of earnings, William Arthur Clayton, father of two children, was fined £7O and costs, 10s. Edwin Francis James Peters pleaded guilty to dishonestly obtaining over £43, and was fined £<lS and costs, 10s, and a Nine Island native, Vai Tongia, who was stated to have been previously warned and who used an assumed name in obtaining employment while receiving sustenance, was fined £lO and costs, 10s, time to pay the fine being refused in this enso. Additional fines covering the amounts obtained under false statements were imposed on the following, costs, 10s, also being entered:—Anthony Kemp, £4O; Albert John Hewitt, £23; Robert Cecil ?tnd Frederick Charles Broadmore Walker, £l6; James Patrick Cusack, £l4;'Robert Ernest Leckie, £l3; Willniott Livingstone Diggens, £11; Alexander,. Grewar, £10; William Netana, £9; George Edward Dickman, £8; George Sharp, £6 10s; James Arthur Hall, Gordon Banks and Jack Bennett, £o; Frank Hamilton Viskovich, £2 10s; and Nool Ernest Aydon Thompson, £2.