AMAZING STORY

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 80, 28 December 1929, Page 27

AMAZING STORY

AFFLUENCE & IMPUDENCE

An expensively dressed woman who owned a bungalow, a motor-car, three Pomeranian dogs, and had nine others for sale, rode in her car to tlie office of the guardians’ relieving officer at Belper, Derbyshire, and applied for relief.

Such was the amazing story told to the Belper Guardians recently. In his report to the board) the relieving officer said that the application was received from' a woman who lived at Allestree, near Derby. He went to her bungalow to make inquiries and there saw a man doing her garden. On either side of the bungalow were notices • advertising land, the property of the applicant, for sale.

“I was surrounded by P.omeranianS yapping and trying to take a piece

out of my leg when I- entered the house,” the officer said. The mother, who saw the relieving officer, gave him to understand that the house and car belonged to her daughter. Later the same day the daughter visited the relieving officer at his office. This woman, he said, had driven to Belper in her car and brought her Poms, with her. “After I had repeatedly explained that relief could not be given to persons with cars and bungalows, she persisted in saying relief was given to people with property.” The case caused the guardians considerable amusement, and the chairman remarked, “She hadn’t any cheek, had she?” Relief was refused. The woman s name was not disclosed.