SOCIAL TAXATION
ANOMALIES IN VICTORIA. SYSTEM TO BE OVERHAULED. Received Aug. 12, 11.55 p.m. MELBOURNE, Aug. 12. The Premier, Sir Stanley Argyle, confessed that he was staggered at the number of persons in Victoria who are receiving Federal and State aid. He said that there are 604,513 recipients of State charity costing more than £8,000,000 annually. This large army was being maintained by fewer than 100,000 taxpayers quite apart from the expenditure on unemployment relief. The Ministry intends to revise the whole scheme of social payments and abolish the imposition of duplication charges. Sir Stanley Argyle cited a typical case of a man drawing a salary of £2OOO a year and also receiving a war pension of 10s weekly. Whole families were living comfortably on charitable doles.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 190, 13 August 1932, Page 8
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127SOCIAL TAXATION Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 190, 13 August 1932, Page 8
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