PENSION IMPROPERLY SECURED
A REFUND ORDERED. TRMARU, June 20. In the Magistrate’s Court to-day, before Mr Mosley, S.M., the Commissioner of Pensions claimed from an elderly woman named Mary O Donoghue the sum of £79 10s, 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 the bank. The defendant was also charged with having fraudulently obtained a pension of a greater amount than she was entitled to. After hearing tbo evidence, the Magistrate. held that a breach of the Pensions Act had been committed, and he ordered that the amount of the pension overpaid be refunded. On the money being paid into court a criminal charge was formally entered, and was dismissed.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3615, 26 June 1923, Page 7
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129PENSION IMPROPERLY SECURED Otago Witness, Issue 3615, 26 June 1923, Page 7
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