INDIGNANT TAXPAYERS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 313, 29 August 1932, Page 2

INDIGNANT TAXPAYERS

OUTRAGED AT NUMEROUS FAUDS ON DOLE. GLARING IMPOSITIONS.

Sydiuey, Saturday. The discovery of a man on th'e dole at Newtown, who had £2200 invested is only one of hundreds of cases of imposition in the records of the Labour Department. Investigation officers of the department have frequently been put on the track of dole frauds by a "tip-off." • It comes usually in'any anonymous letter from an indignant taxpayer whose sense of fairness is outraged by a neighbour's duplicity. A week or two ago "Fair Play" wrote to the department as follows. — How is it that , or — street, can get the dole for himself and two children and wife. They have no children. "When the inspector says he will be back they run around to their friends and get two children and tell them what to say. The woman is getting* the dole for herself, too." Investigators could discover no trace of the alleged children for whom relief was heing issued, and the Regis-trar-General's records disclosad that they were non-existent. "The Loafer" Caught." "One Who Knows" wrote: "I feel it is my duty to report that , of , has for at least four months been drawing dole for himself, wife and three children. "His wifs and family are not living with him, and are not heing supported by him." The inspectors checked up ,and found the information correet. "I am one who has paid 4s a week helping to keep those who can't get work, but not this kind of loafer; it would do tbe likes of him good to be caught," wrote another correspondent. The loafer" was caught, and the case turned over to the police. Glaring Cases The departmental file of fraud cases has 'expanded rapidly since Mr. Dunningham took Ministerial charge, because a far greater number of cases are heing detected. . One of the mose glaring cases of impositions uncovered and dealt with in the last week or two are those of : A milk vendor wh'o earns £8 a week. A foreigner who conducts a fish shop from which he receives about £4 a week. ■ A family of four earning £12 15s a week. A miner at Scarborough who was paid £9 0s lOd, and on the sanie day obtained food relief. A builder who drew relief. for ,a family of five. He owned five houses, ali of which were occupied.