NOT EVEN FOR LOVE.
POVERTY AND ROMANCE. LONDON, September 12. "Not for the best man in the world would I attempt to keep a family of eight on 59/ a week," declared Mrs. Murray, a member of the West Ham. Board of Guardians, which has resisted the Health's Ministry's direction to* reduce its outdoor relief dole from 59/ to 55/. Seventy thousand indigent persons in West Ham are drawing £200,000 a month in relief, and West Ham owes the Health Ministry £1,500,000. The guardians resent "the unparalleled scurrility, abuse, and charges of prodigality, and havp challenged -the Ministry to stop relief. Tf Mr. Neville Chamberlain was eompolled to live on 9/6 relief money weekly, '-soon the Cabinet would become members of the Communist party." say the Guardians.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 225, 23 September 1925, Page 7
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