SUSTENANCE FRAUDS
—» ■■■-■ PREVALENCE OF THE OFFENCE COURTS GREATLY EXERCISED (From Our Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON, Oct. 26, j The total number of persons admitted to probation during the year was 813, or 54 more than for the previous year, states the report of the chief probation officer (Mr ■ B. L. Dallard). An analysis_of the offences involved shows that the largest increase was in connection with offences (fraudulent statements) relating to the Employment Promotion Fund, such offences j representing just under 10 per cent. \ of the total cases dealt with. " These cases," the report adds, " exercise the courts to no small degree, their general prevalence and f deliberateness calling for salutary penalties on the one hand, whereas, on the other, imprisonment involves hardship to families, which in many cases have already suffered privation through unemployment. Except in very bad cases, time is allowed in which to pay the fines m instalments, the fines in many instances being fixed at an amount equivalent to the sum fraudulently obtained."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23333, 27 October 1937, Page 14
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