PURCHASE OF LUXURIES.
UNEMPLOYED RELIEF MONEY. ALLEGATIONS AT PAPAKURA. "Seventy-five per cent, luxury, was how Mr. H. E. McEmpee, afc a meeting of the Papakura Town Board last evening, described articles purchased by certain people in that district with money granted to them for unemployment relief at Christmas. "I think it is only fair that the attention of the public should be drawn to the matter," said Mr. McEmpee. The chairman, Mr. H. L. Thornton, said he also had been surprised when he saw a list of the articles purchased by some people with relief money. The committee handed out the voucheis they could not help it if the people wasted them on the purchase of such luxuries, he. said. Mr. McEmpee explained that he wa!i not blaming the local committee but was; simply drawing attention to what hatil occurred. Several members mentioned! that tobacco and cigarettes had appeareci on one list.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20794, 10 February 1931, Page 14
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152PURCHASE OF LUXURIES. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20794, 10 February 1931, Page 14
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