USURY ALLEGATION
AGAINST PREMIER LAND, Press Association.) (Received 8.55 a.m.) SYDNEY, April 2D. Quoting from an official deposition taken at a fire' inquest in the Premier’s electorate, Foster, a Nationalalist member'of the Legislative Assembly claimed that the firm of Lang and Dawes, estate agents, whereof the Premier is a partner had charger? a woman who purchased property, thirteen per cent interest on a mortgage. Foster said Lang was ever ready to accuse other people of usury, himself posing as a “Simon Pure,” always describing landlords and moneylenders as ogres fattening on working people, yet the Premier himself in the capacity of a mortgagee, was one of the greatest usurers. “If the Premier does not face the House and attempt to disprove the statement, I shall ask my lawyers to investigate the allegation.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1931, Page 5
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132USURY ALLEGATION Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1931, Page 5
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