PENSION IMPROPERLY SECURED.
A REFUND ORDERED. , (Pbb. United Press' Association.) : l '*■ • -'TIMARUi June 20. ■ln the. Magistrate’s. Court ta-day, ; ".belpra Mr ■ Mosley,. SAL, the Commissioner;’ pf Pensions claimed Iron), an elderly woman named Mary O’Donoghuo the sum of £7O I Os, being double the -amount of the pension overpaid to the defendant as the result Of the woman having failed to disclose that she had £433 in tho bank. The defendant was also charged with having fraudulently obtained a pension of a greater amount than she was entitled to. After hearing the evidence, the Magistrate hold that a breach of the Pensions Act had been committed, and he ordered that tho amount of the pension overpaid be refunded. On tho money being paid into court a, criminal charge was formally entered, and was dismissed.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18894, 21 June 1923, Page 8
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134PENSION IMPROPERLY SECURED. Otago Daily Times, Issue 18894, 21 June 1923, Page 8
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