FARMER FINED

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19958, 16 November 1934, Page 3

FARMER FINED

UNEMPLOYMENT BREACHES I Charges of failing to pay the unemployment tax deducted from the wages of an employee and failing to deduct the wages tax were preferred against Clifford William Simmons (Mr A. L. Hudson.) who pleaded guilty, at the Magistrate’s Court before Mr C. R. Orr-Walker S.M.. yesterday. Mr E. C. J. Foot, who appeared for the Unemployment Board, said that defendant had failed to purchase and affix the stamps within the prescribed three days. He had had the use of money that belonged to the Crown. As the magistrate had emphasised on previous occasions, employers must keep correct records, otherwise it made the work of the inspectors very difficult. Defendant had an excellently-kept wages book, but the stamps were not up to date when it was inspected. They had since been affixed. The inspector had to secure records from a cheque book. Mr Hudson said that if defendant’s bank book had been inspected it would have disclosed the required information. The Magistrate said that the cost of running the Unemployment Department was often commented on, and if the Department had to engage accountants, inspectors, and book-keepers to go into these things there would be all manner of complaints about the cost. Mr Hudson submitted that his client had no intention of avoiding his obligations. Farmers generally were inclined to be careless in keeping their books up-to-date. On the first charge defendant was convicted and fined £3 with costs 12/and 10/- with costs 12/- on the second charge.