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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20495, 14 March 1932, Page 8

A Baby Austin motor-car, tlie property of Mr J. P. Ayres, of 44 Opawa road, was stolen from Lichfield street, between 8.45 p.m and 10.15 p.m. last evening, and at midnight had not been recovered. The registered number or the car was 137-923. The Chief Secretary of Western 'Australia (Mr Baxter), after hearing a recent deputation of sustenance workers regarding conditions, said that Ministers had been worrying to find money for sustenance and then went out and found loafers everywhere. In one case he had witnessed ten men working on a job that could have been done by one man in the same time. Such men were a menace to the community. The country would never get out of its trouble under such conditions. Some people did not seem to realise the State's serious position. The Government did not have the money to give more work. It appeared that some people had lost all sense of proportion. One section asked the Government day after day to sacrifice different assets; another section said it should keep up the old extravagant expenditure; another wanted a moratorium, not realising that such acts would freeze all their assets and make impossible a position that was bad enough. Another Section wanted all sorts of better conditions. The people had been living in a fool's paradise. "You must not ask the Government, to do everything. Do something for yourselves," he said.