WASTED ON DRINK
SUSTENANCE MONEY By Telegraph -Pt e.s Association HASTINGS, August 22. “Yesterday was sustenance day and I understand that these three men are on sustenance pay,” said Sergeant Wade at the Magistrate’s Court, when three men were charged before Mr A. C. A. Hyde, J.P., with being found drunk. “I feel that some notice of this should be taken by the authorities,” said Mr Hyde. “It is a striking commentary on the sustenance system that the taxpayer should be called upon to help people, and then find such assistance being abused in this way. There is something wrong with the principle of the thing, and it is not fair to taxpayers. When men on sustenance are brought before the Court upon charges of drunkenness and a conviction is entered, they should be penalised by taking them off sustenance.’”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20504, 24 August 1936, Page 6
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140WASTED ON DRINK Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20504, 24 August 1936, Page 6
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