FALSE PRETENCES

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 65, 10 March 1933, Page 5

FALSE PRETENCES

Wellington Allegation AGAINST A FAMILY CIRCLE RELIEF AND RATIONS VALUED £498 (Per Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. Allegations that in three years relief and rations to the value of • £498 odd had been obtained from the Wellington Hospital Board by means of false representations were made in the Magistrate’s Court, to-day when charges against two of four members of a family alleged to be concerned were proceeded with. Mona Bartlett was charged with being a rogue and vagabond in that she obtained rent, coal, boots and shoes, by falsely representing that none of the family were working. Keith Bartlett was charged with being a rogue and vagabond in respect' of two alleged offences, i.e. obtaining rations to the value of £2 11s by falsely representing that he was the only member of the family working. Alfred James Bartlett and Maud Bartlet, father and mother, respectively, did not appear, and a medical certificate showed that they were unable to ppear, was produced. Counsel for the board indicated that the alleged offences took place from September 1929 to October 1932, and it would be shown, he said, that the lowest income of the family during the period was £6 11s and the highest £ll/16/6, combining wages and grants by the board. In tion, grants were made from other sources. . ; i The charges are being dealt\ • with as indictable. , -- Later. Both defendants were com- ’ Emitted for trial.