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IN I)ULGENT BRITAIN. LAVISH OUTDOOR RELIEF. When Albert Roberts, a painter with many convictions, was charged at Marylebopc with, stealing paint, he said he had reverted to crlniV because it was 'So very hard to get. work, says a London paper. | Mr Halket, the magistrate: What more could an indulgent country do for such as you '! Lavish outdoor relief is provided by the guardians, workhouses are made available, casua'i wards are kept open, where instead of having, to work like galley slaves, people 'have a very eaisy time- 1-ni addition, unemployment benefit is given. All this munificent, social legislation fo r r making everyone as comfortable as possible, involves enormous rates and taxes, and th'e- peo- . pie who have to. pay them arc being reduced to great straits. Roberts was sentenced to six months’ hard labour, WON’T-WORK THIEVES. WilPam Bygraves, aged 18, and Sidney Mut-toek, aged 21, both cd Flockton. Street, Rotherhithe, S. E.. were at Tower Bridge each sentenced to three months’- imprisonment for thefts from a barge on the Thames. Detective-Sergeant Landor said that Bygraves was convicted of unlawful possession in 1924. and sent to a tchcYjl. He was released in. 1925 and applied to the Bermondsey Guardians for relief on the next day. He 'has been living on relief ever since. Mattock has also, been convicted of theft. He married while on, relief and both -he and his wife were being kept by the guardians. He ha,d -neverdone any work' and wa-s- kn.own as the leader of a gang, of river, thieves. He was sent to a farm colony by the guardians, but was discharged . because, he would not work.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5319, 29 August 1928, Page 4
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278IT PAYS TO BE IDLE. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5319, 29 August 1928, Page 4
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