FALSE PRETENCES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19750, 17 March 1934, Page 24

FALSE PRETENCES

THREE MEN CONVICTED. By Telegraph—Press Association ROTORUA, March 16. In the Taupo Magistrate's Court before Mr S. I. Paterson. S.M.. John Atirau Asher, licensee of the Tokaanu Hotel, and chairman of the Tokaanu Native School Committee, was charged with obtaining £65 19. 6 from Tiweka Parau, Registrar of the Waiarakei Native Land Board. Rotorua, by means of false pretences, and on three further charges of causing the said Paru to act upon false time sheets. Evidence was Diought by the police to show that Asher as chairman of the School Committee, had allegedly falsified the time sheets in connection with work done in improving the school grounds, and for which a grant of £7O had been obtained from the Native Unemployment Fv. ids. Asher pleaded not guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court at Hamilton for trial. In connectni with the same work at Tokaanu, charges of signing false time sheets were brought against three men -Eric Hutton, carrier. Tokaanu; Walter Rae Shannon, hotel labourer, Tokaanu: and Arthur Victor Herbert, labourer, Reporoa . All three admitted that they had signed the time sheets showing various amounts due to them for work on the school grounds, although they had not tit any time worked on the grounds, ana were not eligible for relief work. T>e Magistrate convicted all three. Hutton was fined £5 and costs, Shannon was fined £2 and costs; Herbert was ordered to come up for sentence any time within 12 months, and ordered to pay costs.