UNFORTUNATE ERROR
Crippled Relief Worker in Wrong Classification
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, December 31
Too crippled to walk but in desperate need of meagre relief pay, a man last week found it necessary to get his wife to push him in a wheeled chair from the city to the Hospital Board plantation at Bottle Lake. Not only that, but in the heat of the day she had to push him back again along the dusty, hard road; and again next day she had to make another three-mile trip. Then it was discovered that a mistake had been made in the classification of the man, and that he should not have been classed as fit for light work at aIL Other arrangements have now been made.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 83, 2 January 1935, Page 3
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125UNFORTUNATE ERROR Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 83, 2 January 1935, Page 3
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