STATE CHARITY.
POSITION IN VICTORIA, COST QF " 88,000,000 YEARLY, (IWTIP PBBBS ASSOC**TION-~BT ELBCTBW TJftSOBAJ'n—COPTWOBT) (Received August 13th, 11.15 p.m.) MELBOURNE, August IS. The Premier, Sir Stanley Argyle, confessed to-day that he was staggered at the number of persons in Victoria who are receiving Federal or State aid, There were, he said, 604,513 recipients of State charity, coating more than 418,000,000 annually, This large army was being maintained by less than 100,000 taxpayers, quite apart, from expenditure pn unemployment relief. The Ministry intends to revise the whole schejne of social payments, and t« abolish the imposition of duplies** ol * charges, Sir Stanley Argyle cjted a. typical case of a man drawing a salary of'£goQo a year, and also receiving r a war pension of 10s weekly. Whole families were living comfortably on charitable doles.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20624, 13 August 1932, Page 15
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133STATE CHARITY. Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20624, 13 August 1932, Page 15
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