SYDNEY DOLE FRAUDS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 228, 26 August 1932, Page 2

SYDNEY DOLE FRAUDS.

REMARKABLE INGENUITY. Sydney detectives have been astonished by the ingenuity of many dole recipients who have managed to draw tho dolo in both metropolitan and country centres by using trains without paying fares (writes a Sydney correspondent). While many of these men are satisfied to draw twice the amount they are entitled to, others have engaged in thieving from trains to add to their income. The police detailed the movements of several men who were receiving the dolo. As soon as they wero paid in the city they moved to the western sul>urbs, where they were able to join trains to Litligow and other centres more than 100 miles from Sydney. Some of the men joined the trains while they were stationary at platforms and hid themselves in goods trucks, where they were safe from observation by the guard and enginedriver.

Other men waited at cuttings, where the high grades forced the trains to proceed slowly. They jumped on the trucks and hid themselves while the officials on the train were unaware of their presence. The majority of these men, who totalled several hundred, drew tho dole at Sydney and then at a country centre. Then they returned to the city and repeated the process. Tho police were mainly concerned with the men who added to their incomes by robbing trains. They say they are certain that more than 100 men roll trains while they are travelling to and from tho country to draw twice the amount of unemployment relief to which they are entitled. The police have been worried by the persistence of some men whom they have arrested. One man was sentenced to' several weeks’ imprisonment for stealing whisky. As soon as ho was released lie was arrested again for stealing goods on the return trip. Both the police and railway detectives have been kept busy by the numerous thefts.