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UNEMPLOYMENT FRAUDS GREYMOUTH PR OSECUTION (Per Pjross Association.) " "GRfe£MOUT-H, this day. At the Magistrate's Court Peter James Duncan, 35. was admitted to probation for a year alter pleading guilty to obtaining £7 4s"from the Labour Department by falsely representing thai two children were living with and being maintained by him. Detective Sergeant Knight said that tho department wishj?d it to be generally known that similar offences were becom-
iiig prevalent, and it would in future press for a heavy penalty. Mr. B. Morgan, S.M., stated that in future offenders would find it difficult to obtain" probation.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19100, 22 August 1936, Page 6
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