UNEMPLOYMENT FRAUDS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 246, 16 October 1937, Page 11

UNEMPLOYMENT FRAUDS

MAGISTRATE’S COMMENT. I Per Press Association. ] WELLINGTON, Oct. 15. In imposing lines in a number of cases of unemployment frauds to-day, Mr. Mosley, S.M., said that it appeared that honesty was not thought as much of in New Zealand as elsewhere. People in New Zealand seemed to think that the unemployment fund was there to be robbed. Judging by the prosecutions, thousands seemed to think so. It was a very bad thing for the future of a young nation that such a state of things should exist. One could only hope that there would be a change in the attitude of the people. All that could be done now was to punish with severity the more serious offenders. AUCKLAND CASES TWO MEN GAOLED. [ Per Press Association. ] AUCKLAND, Oct. 15. Geoffrey Shaw, who was stated by the prosecution to have made 77 false declarations and received an excess of £99 in sustenance payments, was to-day lined £lOO for making a false declaration. On a further charge of false pretences he was sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment. Robert David Buckeridge, charged with making a false declaration and failing to disclose his earnings, was fined £ll on one charge, and sentenced to 14 days’ gaol on the other.