in the cost. A macadam road Swindling the Unemployed: Bank-There is, of course, a difference costs, roughly, from &s. to 10s. a rupt though Maintained by square yard—concrete cents from 14s. to 16s. But the concrete last Husband in China ruch longer. Some experts claim Sentence of 18 months' hard that a good concrete road, proper-labour was passed at the Old ly constructed, will last from 25 to Bailey recently on Joan Johnson, 40 years.
The maintenance costs married woman, who pleaded is low.
Repairs cost very little. guilty to six charges of obtaining It certainly disorganizes the traffic ie money by false pretences. A sum when you have to block up a road of £235 was involved. for two or three weeks you lay conerete and wait for it to set, bu'
Mr. Travers Humphreys, pro-the engineers declare that' the Securing, described how Johnson other benefits outbalance that in-obtained deposits og security, samples convenience.
The only kind of against possible loss of traffic that is likely to cut up a from p copie who replied to her advertisement for canvassers for a cro wthoeled kind. But what that Sctitious credit drapers' conerete road is the -heavy, slow business. Tt was a cruel fraud, said Mr. kind of traffic does to the macadam Humphreys, because the victims, yood is simply unspeakable. So some of them ex-service men, gave that it is not a peculiar weakness: 3 their money to get employment. of the concrete road.
Inspector Rose proved a pre-This problem: of the heavy, steelvious conviction of Johnson for wheeled waggons, however, will similar frauds, and said that she soon be solved. Gradually, as thi gained £3,000 from 50 different concrete roads are being built, con-people, returning £1,000 of it when tractors are finding that it is much pressed. The inspector added that. cheaper to have rubber-tired motor the woman's real name was Moore. lorries doing four trips along She had taken the name of the smooth surface than to have a man with whom she had been liv-slow, clumsy, steel-wheeled waging in Dalston. Her husband had gon doing tone.
It certainly seems been in China on business and sad that concrete's the thing. allowed her nearly £20 a month, but the woman was made bankrupt in 1921 with liabilities of over £1,~
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