USURIOUS MONEYLENDER
WOMAN’S 1.040 PER CENT.
WIFE PAYS £55 FOR £6
For failing to register as a moneylender Sarah Ann Mervington, a shrimp hawker, was fined £2O and tosts at Chatham, England. One woman who had borrowed nioney from Mervington said she had talked the streets at night, taping afraid to go home, as she had pledged her husband’s clothes to repay the J oan. It was stated that for one loan of -6 Mervington received back £55. In one instance the rate of interest was -.040 per cent., in another S9l, and 1Q a third 7SO per cent. Mervington said she only lent the Qioney to oblige her friends. She got aS back for every 5s “for a drink.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 324, 9 April 1928, Page 11
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120USURIOUS MONEYLENDER Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 324, 9 April 1928, Page 11
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