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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22630, 23 July 1935, Page 9

“ I had inquiries made of several pawnbrokers in reference to relief workers or sustenance men pawning boots supplied by the Unemployment Board, r.nd their opinion is that it should be an offence for men to dispose of the boots in that way, also that it should be made an offence to purchase them,” said the Mayor (Mr Ernest Davis), when presiding at a meeting of the Auckland Metropolitan Relief Committee. Mr R. Grieve said the trouble was that the boots supplied to sustenance men were too heavy, and Archbishop Holbrook said the men sold the boots for a few shillings, then added a shilling or two to what they received, and bought a lighter pair. It was decided to write to the Unemployment Board on the matter.