FALSE PRETENCES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 137, 11 June 1937, Page 9

FALSE PRETENCES

HARD LABOUR SENTENCES i AM.EC-ED UNEMPLOYMENT , Pleading guilty at Wellington to > hree charges of obtaining money Tom the Labour Department bv false ' John Bennie Bayliss, a i driver, aged 30, appeared before Mr.; ; Mosley, S.LI. The charges state-.: , that on December 3, December 17 an! ! January 7 respectively he obtained £2 ! 3s from the department by stating ; that his earning for the preceding j periods were ril, whereas thev weic • £5 16s 2d, £5 16s and £3 17s 4d re- ; spectively. The charges were brought under the Crimes Act. Detective-Sergeant W. Kane said' that from November until the end of ‘ January the hocused was regularly : j employed as a driver by a carrying ; i company. During that time he dro>\ • i wages amounti;-;.. to £54 l?s Sd. At ' It he sarr* time he attended the 11?;- * employment Board offices, and re- ! ceived about £25. He was still in con- i stant employment and was earning good wages “This’s tit jibcrate fraud an robbery over a long period,” said the magis- ! tratc. “I cannot understand a man [ like you. You must have a nice con- ■ ‘science, if any -well under control.” i 1 The accused was sentenced to three [months’ imprisonment with hard lab*cn each of three charges.