When a woman money-lender, a widow, was fined £2O at Salford, for carrying on business without a license, it was said that she charged a woman, who borrowed £l, interest, at the rate of 1400 per cent, A detective said that the woman caused trouble in several working people’s homes. The women, who had borrowed from her, however, were reluctant to appear in court for fear that their husbands might .know. Other cases quoted, showed that borrowers repaid at the rate of T3OO and 346 per cent.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20701, 26 April 1929, Page 11
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87Page 11 Advertisements Column 3 Otago Daily Times, Issue 20701, 26 April 1929, Page 11
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