MEN ON RELIEF WORK.
SOME UNWORTHY OF AID. COMMENT RY MAGISTRATE. (I'er Press Association). CHRTSTCHURCH, This Day. _ Tn fining two relief workers—Francis William Menzios, aged 37, and Alexander Braid, aged. 24—£2 each, in default 11 days' imprisonment, for conversion of a car, the Magistrate (Mr E. D. Mosley) said: "According to the Court records during past months there have been a number of the men on relief works before me. A huge proportion are decent fellows, hut a small proportion are wasting their earnings in drink. It is a shame that this should occur, and that private and public monev is being wasted on men of this kind."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 51, Issue 131, 16 March 1931, Page 6
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