SELLING RELIEF ORDERS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 132, 2 December 1930, Page 13

SELLING RELIEF ORDERS

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CHRISTCHURCH ALLEGATION

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") CHRISTCHURCH, Ist December. An allegation that some unemployed men were solilng orders on the hospital board for 33J per cent, less than their face value and using the money so obtained to go to the pictures was made by Mr. W. W. Soarff at' to-day's meeting of the" Citizens' Unemployment Committee. \ Mr. J. G. Barnett said that publicity should not bo given to such statements unless they were definitely proved.' "I do not niak& those statements unless I know what I am saying," retorted Mr. Scarff. He quoted another case of a man who obtained relief work with the Heathcote County Council, and after earning £,4 4s 4d in one week did not ■work on the Saturday morning, so that ho could obtain his rations from a certain depot. Mrs., A. Fraor: "We are not ■ open on Saturday, so it couldn't have been Dur depot." The chairman (Mr. E. :H. Andrews) at this stago called the committee's attention back to the order paper, and tho discussion was dropped.