STRAIN ON HOSPITAL BOARD
BELIEF CAMPERS IN NELSON ■ AREA.
THOUSAND FROM OTHER
DISTRICTS
(By Telegraph —Cress Association.) NELSON, June 15
There are at present 1000 unemployed from other parts of New Zealand in numerous unemployment camps established in the Nelson district for road making, gold seeking, afforestation and hawthorn hedge cutting, and the Hospital Board is feeling the strain of meeting the medical needs of the men. .. The chairman, Mr. B, Dagger said it was apparent, that the machinery for placing the. men in camps was m need of overhaul. Men. were sent often to cold, wet localities not properly equipped. Some soon cracked up and' came to the hospital and were n liability on the Nelson ratepayers. This would be a- different matter it the men belonged to the Nelson area It was decided to place the matter before the Unemployment Board and to ask what assistance it would oner.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 15 June 1933, Page 7
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151STRAIN ON HOSPITAL BOARD Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 15 June 1933, Page 7
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