POOR RELIEF
' TAXPAYERS’ BURDEN
LONDON. Aug. 26.
According to a report issued by the Ministry of Health, all forms of poor relief for the year ended March 31 amounted to £39.500,000. as compared with 1136,750,000 for last year.
The actual share met by the ratepayers was £54i000,000. as compared with £ll,750,000 before, the war. There are at present 1,840,000 ’recipients. The . report ascribes the increase to laxity in administration.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17132, 7 September 1926, Page 10
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69POOR RELIEF Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17132, 7 September 1926, Page 10
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