MISUSE OF MONEY

Hokitika Guardian, 31 May 1932, Page 5

MISUSE OF MONEY

BY LANG MINISTBY

SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS MADE

(Australian Press Association.)

(Received this day at 8 a.in.)

SYDNEY, May 31

The Minister cf Labour and' industry (the Hon Air Duniiingluun) makes, what is described, remarkable revelation, wit 1 1 regard to the Lang .Ministry s nii.su.se of the unemployment funds deli’, ed from the wages tax of ;v shilling in the pound. He says that lie discovered that £-10,000 had been diverted to the pay me lit of taxation, and staff salaries, £40,090 to rent committments of the Chief Secretary’s Department, .£2OOO for charitable relief, which should have eomo from another fund, and £IOO “hush” money in rent to the Newcastle Watorsiders’ Union to prevent a strike, which was likely tl> embarrass the Lang Government.

The sum of £SOOO was advanced to ihe furniture trades union, ostensibly to meet the needs of the unemployed of that organisation, whereas it was discovered that no condition whatever was attached to the advance.

Mr Dunningham adds that several avowed that the Lang Plan advocates also received first (flans nter-Ptafee milwav • passes ‘to enable them to pursue their, activities in other States. There had also been a, vast amount, o* jov-riding in Government cars during the Lang regime. Tt was quite obvious that the uneinnloyment funds bad illegally been us-n because of the Govorment’s impecuniositv in latter months.