SALE OF RATION ORDERS ALLEGED
STATEMENT MADE TO CITIZENS’ COMMITTEE.
An allegation that some unemployed men were selling orders on the Hospital Board for 33 1-3 per cent less than their face value and using the money so obtained to go to the pictures was made by Mr W. W. Scarff at to-day’s meeting of the Citizens’ Unemployment Committee.
Mr J. G. Barnett said that publicity should not be given to such statements unless they were definitely proved. “I do not make those statements unless I know what I am saying,” retorted Mr Scarff. He quoted another case of a man who obtained relief work with the Heathcote County Council and after earning £4 4s 4d in one week did not work on the Saturday morning so that he could obtain his rations from a certain depot. ' Councillor Annie Fraer: We are not open on Saturday so it couldn’t have been our depot. The chairman (Councillor E. H. Andrews) here called the committee’s attention back to the order paper and the discussion was dropped.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19241, 1 December 1930, Page 9
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