PENSION FRAUDS
SUM OF £429 INVOLVED PRISON TERM IMPOSED (P.A.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Mar. 22. Convicted on 10 charges of defrauding the Pensions Department of £429 Os 9d, a pensioner, Frederick Coldrick, was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment on nine charges by Mr W. H. Woodward, S.M.. to-day. The magistrate said that Coldrick had obtained £329 10s from all sources in the past 2A years, and a careful check showed that there was no possibility of restitution. There was no justification for probation, as the accused could not have been ignorant of the fact that he was defrauding the department or of the fact that he was not entitled to live at the rate of £4O a month. As his war pension of £7 a month had been stopped sentence on the remaining charge would be postponed, the magistrate saying that if the pension was not stopped permanently the accused would be given probation at the end of the prison term, conditional on repaying £7 a month.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25801, 23 March 1945, Page 4
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