STATE CHARITY
POSITION IN VICTORIA PREMIER “STAGGERED” SCHEME TO BE REVISED (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) MELBOURNE, 12th August. The Premier, Sir Stanley Argyle, confessed that he was staggered at the number of persons in Victoria who were receiving Federal and State aid. He said there were 604,513 recipients of State charity, costing more than £8,000,000 annually, this large army being maintained by fewer than 100,000 taxpayers; quite apart from expenditure on unemployment relief. The Ministry intends to revise the whole scheme of social payments, and abolish the imposition of duplication charges. Sir Stanley Argyle cited a typicai case of a man drawing a salary of £2OOO a year, also receiving a war pension of 10s weekly. “Whole families were living comfortably on charitable doles.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 13 August 1932, Page 7
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125STATE CHARITY Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 13 August 1932, Page 7
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