FRAUDS ADMITTED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18581, 15 December 1934, Page 2

FRAUDS ADMITTED

RELIEF WORK EOMDS ■FORGERY OF VOt'CHERS (Per Press Association.) WAIPIJKURAU,The preliminary' Beating' of the case against Herbert Montei-oy Tansley and Christian Mafhescm Gtronh, tbf rjfoaner file-town clerk Wr WStpukuriiln • latter a relief worker engaged in unemployment bureau duties, concluded before justices of too peace yesterday afternoon. . They pleaded guilty on two counts, viz, the theft of; various sun® totalling. £164 6» 3d, tfie property of the Government, the 4hargt‘s' administration of metotoyjnent, ,r.pMThey CTpurt at Wellington for ihail being renewed in the same' terms, £2OO each and two sureties for £ICO each. Additional evidence was given by relief workers wlio stated that signatdrcs for various amounts were -not theirs, nor authorised by them. C. W. Browne, 'postmaster and certifying officer for the tihethplOymeHt■BOa’i'd, • explained the iystbm followed;; J W’ tbe administration of local reliefi." Oh Nov-, ember 7, as a result of ft saw Tansley and/ told hirn.'pFft' com-, .plaint by H. J.Bite-hems .that <ie bad not received his wages tWi-rtlW ’ W<»k - ended Ifoyijmber 3. He informed the accused that the form certified' attd re-, turned had the uigbafttry ''of fHitjqhgns. After questioning, Tansley. taid sbrneone must have written Hitchens’ narnO while Ali«et /’Wat' ■ Ahte conn ter. He Jhad found £T in a box -in wlfjph ho kept Bithhens’ money, adding tn»:be"kept each man’s in a separate box. 'Witness could entifc get from!; this and a Ktfef mterVifewT v On;' November 7, he. received from' Hbwea tha envelope produced. ' , ; vjth tejily to Grontis counsel# the rtiki'-iiaiki Grquu, bad. helped .-him, in Ifijw worker drawing: pay,.,fcbvbdgn the .School committee by ahe .'arnuigtatieiit' known to the board, abide Been 1 altered. " At:; 'present, . blip bureau worker jyas shoWp on a. Mjfsrftte. voucher, ahd'bia wages were also more than Gronn received. , He.was;, a satisfUdtory worker. '’V, l i /.V' ’-Detective-Sergeant Bickerdike said tpt JGfronny irf a bli / Tansley’s sbggestibn he agreed *’to divide th e moneys received ; far men. on tfeV list who were not forking, He admitted forging several, signatures in Tftrtstey’s presence, .the latter,, oiice remarking : ‘ ( Wejf?«p«OT bfe 1 .Dronn : wa* . getting ;Wbrribd .'at this stage. \,k Tin* witneis also road a statement; by, Tatisiev. who alleged^Mte^^^ fche^police* every