BRITAIN’S DOLES.
ASTOUNDING FIGURES. COMMISSION OF INQUIRY URGED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received April 5, 9.5 p.m. London, April 4. Sir J. Rees (Coalition-Unionist) moved for a Royal Commission to inquire into the public expenditure on public assistance, the cost of which had risen from twenty-five millions between 18901891 up to 332 millions in 1920-1921. In moving his motion, he pointed out that excluding the unemployed, thirty million out of a population of forty-eight millions received public assistance in some form.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 April 1922, Page 5
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83BRITAIN’S DOLES. Taranaki Daily News, 6 April 1922, Page 5
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