SUSTENANCE PAYMENT
FALSE STATEMENT.
PAINTER FINED. PALMERSTON NORTH, This Day. Charged with having obtained susenance payment by misleading an official under the Employment Promotion Act, John Barnes, a painter, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to-day. A representative of the Employment Department stated that defendant had been paid sustenance at the rate of £1 13s weekly from 13th June to 18th July, and though he had earned £l2- in that period, had declared his earnings as £3 Cs 6d, thereby overdrawing by the sum of £5 4s.
It was pointed out that this was defendant’s second offence of the same nature. On 24th May he was convicted and ordered to refund £ls.
The Magistrate imposed a fine of £lO, saying:“This sort of thing has got to stop. ’ ’ —(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 14 September 1936, Page 4
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