GREAT DOLE SCANDAL

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 102, 27 October 1931, Page 8

GREAT DOLE SCANDAL

REVELATIONS IN SYDNEY

(From "Tho Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY, ISth October. A staggering revelation of the great dole scandal was the frank confession of a young man who was sentenced to a month's imprisonment on a charge of having attempted to obtain a food relief order by false pretences. He admitted having committed these offences all over the country, and said that he was only one of thousands pvactising imposition. It is estimated that, whereas for the year ended 30th June, 1930, dole expenditure had been at the rate of £6700 a week in New South Wales, it is to-day about £100,000 a week, despite the fact that the annual wages bill from which the special tax is levied lias fallen from £106,000,000 to £84,000,000. That the State shall allow them to live like lotus eaters if they do not want to work, is regarded by many as a right. Even delegates to the Labour Ootim.il have denounced the dole as deAl a public luncheon ;i Sydney ainnsin \i"liu obtains a livelihood by taking people for flights, told mi incredulous audience that on one occasion he was offered a dole ticket in return for a "joy viilc." iSyiluoy folk arc not sceptical about tho truth of this revelation, in tin: light pf recent exposures.