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STATE CHARITY

STARTLING FACTS DISCLOSED.

PREMIER IS “STAGGERED.”

Australian Press Association.)

MELBOURNE, August 12,

The Premier of Victoria, Sir 0 Stanley Argyle, confessed that he was . stag-; gered - at the number of persons in Victoria, who were receiving Federal State aid. He said that , there were 604,513 recipients of State charity, costing more than eight millions annually. This large army was being maintained by fewer than one hundred thousand taxpayers, quite apart from the expenditure on unemployment re-, lief. He said his Ministry intends to revise the whole scheme of social payments, and to abolish imposition ! and duplication charges, Sir S. Argyle cited as typical, the case of a man drawing a salary cf two thousand a yera, and is also receiving a war pension of 10s weekly. Whole families, he said, are living comfortably. on charitable doles.

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Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1932, Page 5

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138

STATE CHARITY Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1932, Page 5

STATE CHARITY Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1932, Page 5

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