Waded Into Sustenance Funds
SERIOUS CASE OF OFFICIALS BEING MISLED “I hardly know what to do in your case. You deserve a term of imprisonment,” declared Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in tho Palmerston North Magistrate’s Court yesterday when Charles Reginald Holmes, porter, appeared before him charged with securing for himself an overpayment of sustenance to the amount of £55 9s by making a misleading declaration as to his earningß. Defendant made an explanation that ho didn’t know whether tho employment ho had secured would be permanent and at the time he was in debt. His Worship: You have been thieving. You must repay this though 1 don’t know how you are going to do it. You will repay it at tho rate of £1 a month and 1 will fix an alternative if you don’t start repaying. It was stated that defendant is a niaried man with four children. Albert William H. Evans, a clerk, similarly charged, was ordered to refund £3 11s overdrawn, with 17s costs. Thomas A. Rodgers, labourer, was ordered to refund £5 13s Od overdrawn under similar circumstances plus 13s costs.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 27, 2 February 1937, Page 10
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186Waded Into Sustenance Funds Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 27, 2 February 1937, Page 10
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