“ I have expressed on more than onfl occasion in this court that if a married man on relief work does not pay to his wife all that money he receives over and above the rates for single men he must go to gaol,” said Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., in the Maintenance Court at Christchurch. “There are no two ways about it. If a man takes this money for himself he is doing so under false prete: ices.”
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Otago Witness, Issue 4031, 16 June 1931, Page 49
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