LIVING ON DOLES
SCANDAL IN VICTORIA.
[BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. COPYBIGHT.]
MELBOURNE, August 12.
Sir Stanley Argyle confessed that he was staggered at the number of persons in Victoria, -who were receiving Federal or State aid. He said that there were 604,513 recipients of State charity, costing more than eight millions annually. This large army was being maintained by fewer than one hun'dred thousand taxpayers, quite apart from the expenditure on unemployment relief. He said that his Ministry intends to revise the whole scheme of so’cial payments, and to abolish imposition and duplication charges.
He cited as typical, the case of a man drawing a salary of £2OOO a year, and is also receiving a war ‘pension of 10/- weekly. Whole families, he said, are living comfortably on charitable doles.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 August 1932, Page 7
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