He was a married man, with four children, but because lie had £SOO saved and in the bank a man who came before the New Plymouth Unemployed Relief Committee a year ago could not be granted relief work. The man returned to the committee this week, reports the News, and said he had spent all the money. With most of it he had bought a house and property in the borough.on which tie laid to pav £26 a year in rates. It was rather unfair, said a member of the committee, that a man had to got rid of Ins savings before he could get relief.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17781, 17 May 1932, Page 10
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