AN AMAZING STORY

Evening Star, Issue 20364, 21 December 1929, Page 13

AN AMAZING STORY

AFFLUENCE AND IMPUDENCE APPLICATION FOR GHA BUT An expensively dressed woman, who owned a bungalow 7 , a motor car, three pomeraniaa dogs, and had nine others for sale, rode in her car to the office of the guard ians’ relieving officer at Belpcr, 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 7 were notices advertising land, the property of the applicant, for sale. “ I was surrounded by pomeranians 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 dpy 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 1”

Relief was refused. The woman’s name was not disclosed.