UNEMPLOYMENT

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21417, 8 March 1935, Page 7

UNEMPLOYMENT

MEETING AT NEW BRIGHTON ATTITUDE OF RETURNED SOLDIERS The president (Mr G. Marsh) presided at a special meeting of the New Brighton sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' Association, called to discuss the question of members of the association being ordered into Ashley camp. The chairman spoke of the atmuae of the Unemployment Board towaias returned men ordered into Aswey camp. He quoted the case rf awe pensioner (receiving 15s a week) wno was wounded in both arms, and wno was ordered into camp; it was not until strong protest was madei to tne board and to the Prime Minister that his notice was withdrawn. He saiu that this man was one of the 18\\no were ordered to camp last November, and after strong protest from the returned Soldiers' Association were ex empted. . „,.,.,>HThe following motions were <-auiea. "That this meeting takes strong exception to the remarks of a member of the local bureau who stated that all itturned men were class A, and mai there were no "Blighties" as far as me Unemployment Board was concerned, implying that any returned men who applied for exemption from camp were 'swinging the lead. That this meeting strongly protests againsttne action of the Unemployment Boaid in sending returned soliders to camp, ana demands that the New Brighton returned men in camp be withdrawn and reinstated on the No. 5 scheme at | New Brighton." TELEGRAM SENT TO PRIME MINISTER Two telegrams urging better treatment of the unemployed of New Brighton were sent to the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, and Mr H. T. Armstrong, M.P., president of the New Zealand Labour party, yesterday afternoon, by Mr C. i. * l >' Ke > president of the New Brighton Unemployed Workers' Movement. Ihe telegram to Mr Forbes was as tallows: "Unless New Brighton unemployed receive immediate increase m allocation increasing prices of commodities will necessitate drastic action being taken to feed their wives ana families Your attention on this question is demanded at once. Armstrong has been notified of this wire. I lease reply." MAORI RELIEF WORKERS' HOSPITAL CHARGES (PRESS ASSOUATI'i-N- 1 ULF.OKAM.I NAPIER, March 7. At the hospital boards' conference to-day a remit to set up a buying organisation was withdrawn, the meeting deciding to set up a committee to report on ihe proposal. A remit trom Tauranga socking linancial assistance fron the Native Department towaids the expenses of Maori patients was agreed to, the Unemployment Board to be asked to set aside sufhoient money to pay the hospital fees ol relief workers.