MONEY-LENDERS.
TOUTING FOR BTJSINESS. 'Tides' —'Sydney Sun' Special Cables. . (Received fast Night, 5.5 o'clock.) February 27. In the "House of' Commons, Mr H. K. Newton,- Unionist member for Essex, moved the second reading of an amendment to the Money Lenders Act, which provides legislation that money-lenders'be prohibited from issuing circulars under well-known names, such as Lords Curzon, Rothschild, and Harms worth. The money lending fraternity have, according to Mr Newton, pestered clergymen, Government officials, and professional men, offering, to lend them fabulous sums on a given per centum. Thye have quoted false testimonials, one purporting to be from a Peer, address sing the money-lender as ."Dear old boy," and asking him to let him have hank notes for £SOO in the morning. They have even written to boys at Eton. The circulars were described not mere as a nuisance, 'but a real danger, offering opportunities for blackmail.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 28 February 1914, Page 5
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