MISUSE OF PUBLIC MONEY.
DURING COAL DISPUTE. SOCIALIST GUARDIANS REPLACED. (Received Wednesday 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 8. How the Socialist Guardians of Ches-tcr-le-Street, Durham, the majority being miners' officials, miners, and their wives, spent the public funds during the coal dispute is the subject of amazing allegations by a Government Commission appointed to replace the Guardians on account of the maladministration. The Commission says that with trade union assistance, sympathisers at the commencement of the dispute took over the administration of the town, incurring a debt of £178,000. They dismissed officials for refusing to make illegal relief payments, while otherwise honest people had been degraded and corrupted. The Guardians ’ administration between May and August last was simply the maintenance of persons engaged in an industrial dispute out of public money.— (Sydney “Sun.”)
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Wairarapa Age, 10 March 1927, Page 5
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132MISUSE OF PUBLIC MONEY. Wairarapa Age, 10 March 1927, Page 5
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