A FARMERS' RACKET.
CLAIMS FOR SUBSIDY. BOGUS CATTLE SALES. (Special —By Air Mail.) LONDON, January 2. A big racket under the cattle subsidy ; cheme has been discovered by the British Government, and a staff of inspectors is being sent round farms and markets to unearth evidence and launch prosecutions. It has been found that the subsidy is being drawn and claimed on cattle that are not eligible.
The scheme says that a farmer shall receive the subsidy of 5/ a hundredweight when he sells a beast. Many of them are now effecting mock sales, under which a dummy purchaser executes documents saying that he has bought the animals, whereas they really remain in the farmer's possession. But the dummy documents are enough- to get the subsidy.
Most of the farmers concerned also own butchers' shops. When they transfer the cattle from their farms to the shops they are not entitled to draw the subsidy. So what they are doing is to sell the cattle to a fictitious Mr. X in their capacity as farmers, and then buy the cattle from Mr. X in their capacity as butchers, thus drawing the subsidy and giving Mr. X a little rake-off for his trouble.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 22, 27 January 1937, Page 18
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