DOMINION NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15320, 22 August 1923, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS.

WAR PENSION CASE.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. WELLINGTON, Tuesday.

At. the Police Court, John Neill was committed lor trial on a charge of making false statements to an officer doing duty in relation to the War Pensions Act, in an important particular.

It was stated that accused said he was unemployed, and as a consequence received payment of supplementary pension. Accused was discharged from Pukeroa sanatorium in 1920, and received a pension by making false statements. At the time he received the additional moneys he was working for the Labour Department at a salary of £235 per annum.

INCENDIARISM

NAPIER, Tuesday. John Gartshore Robertson, aged 16, was charged at the Police Court with wilfully setting fire to the homestead on the Smedtey estate, Tikokino, on March 25. The building was completely destroyed. Accused pleaded guilty, and was committed for sentence. • Robertson admitted that he set Are to the house out of spite, in consequence of differences with the manager of the estate.

ALLEGATION OF THEFT.

WELLINGTON, Tuesday. \ Charged with the theft of £392 Os 7d, Which had been lodged with him as a trustee of the estate of the late Thomas Purdy Cooke, a salesman named Hurbert Stanley Harrison was arrested to-day by Detective Nuttall. The offence is alleged to have been committed at Auckland in December, 1922.