CHARGE OF USURY LAID
MR. LANG ASKED TO REPLY
INTEREST CHARGE BY FIRM
PREMIER ONE OF PARTNERS FIRE INQUIRY DISCLOSURE By Telegraph—Press AsSn.—Copyright. Recd. 1.10 a.m. Sydney, April 20. Quoting from an official deposition taken at an inquest upon a fire in the State Premier's electorate, Mr. Foster, a Nationalist member of the Legislative Assembly, claimed that the firm of Lang and Davis, estate agents, of which the Premier is a partner, had charged a woman who purchased property 13 per cent, interest on a mortgage. ’ Mr. Foster said Mr. Lang was ever ready to accuse other people of usury while he himself posed as a Simon Pure, always describing landlords and moneylenders as ogres battening on the working people. Yet the Premier himself, in his capacity of a mortgagee, was one of the greatest usurers. “If the Premier,” said Mr. Foster, ‘‘does not face the House and attempt to disprove the statement I shall ask my lawyers to investigate, the allegation.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 April 1931, Page 7
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