STATE AID
POSITION !N VICTORIA
ACCORDING TO PREMIER
(Received 13th August, S a.m.)
MELBOURNE, 12th August. The Premier, Sir Stanley Argyle, confessed to-day that he was staggered at the number of persons in Victoria who were receiving Federal and State aid. There were, he said, 604,513 (?) recipients of State charity, costing more than £8,000,000 annually. This large army was being maintained by fewer than 100,000 taxpayers, quite apart from the expenditure on unemployment relief. • ....-■-
The Ministry, intends to revise the whole scheme of social payments and to abolish imposition and duplication of charges. .
Sir Stanley Argyle . cited-a typical ease of a man drawing a salary of £2000 a year and also receiving a war pension of 10s weekly. Whole families ■yere living comfortably on charitable Soles, he said.
The population of Victoria is officially 1,795,522.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 38, 13 August 1932, Page 9
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135STATE AID Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 38, 13 August 1932, Page 9
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