THE 14/- BELIEF RATE
REDUCTION ADVOCATED
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) NAPIEB, Sth December. The Hawkes Bay County Council today resolved that a protest be made against the Government paying 14s a day on relief works, as by so doing farmers were unable to get men to work on farms at a weekly wage, or to get harvesters under two shillings an hour; further, farmers are unable to take advantage of the 7s offered as a subsidy on production work. It was considered that relief pay should be made as unattractive as possible in order not to attract men from other employment. One member suggested tho rate should be nine or ten shillings a day.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 138, 9 December 1930, Page 10
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113THE 14/- BELIEF RATE Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 138, 9 December 1930, Page 10
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