WAIKATO PEAT FIRES
Government Will Help Settlers RELIEF WORKERS TO BE EMPLOYED Tn view of the widespread destruction caused by peat fires in the Maikato, the Government' has decided to take action in helping settlers to combat the outbreak. The Minister .of Lands, Hon. E. A. Ransom, explained yesterday that, in the absence of the Prime Minister, lit. Hon. G. W. Forbes, from Wellington, he bad given instructions to Mr. O. N. Campbell, Deputy-Under-Secretary for Lands, to proceed by the evening Limited express train to Hamilton, where he will confer with local bodies and the local certifying officer with a view to arranging a definite organisation of control in combating the fires. Mr. Ransom added that he. had been in consultation with the Minister, of Employment, the Hon. S. G. Smith, and. as a result, arrangements were made for Hie supply of relief labour and for the Unemployment Board to meet a definite proportion of such workers’ wages. It is not yet known how many relief workers will be employed in fighting the extensive peat fires.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 108, 31 January 1935, Page 10
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176WAIKATO PEAT FIRES Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 108, 31 January 1935, Page 10
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