RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYED

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 17 June 1933, Page 5

RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYED

APPEAL TO FARMERS FOR, FUNDS

TOKAiORA BRANCH CRITICISM Am appeal to f airmens to supportt the proposal whereby they eoaild sign orders for' threepe nice, per hobby calif towards the ‘ relief of local distress’ through unemployed) was made to the Tokaora branch of the Farmers’ Union lialst evening; hy Mr H. A. Morgan, chairmaai of the Hajwera Citizens’ Relief Committee. .. If farmers wished to give a (little to assist the proposal was a way to do it, said Mr Morgan. The committee knew same farmers would like to help but could not dip into their pockets and take out a pound. They might be able to manage this scheme, which was similar to the grocery order scheme. Mir, -9. Thrush .said he wa® not in favour of the proposal; it seemed to him to -be a class tax. The farmers were contriibuting enough and! if the present levy was not enough the Government should make it larger, he added. He had offered the unemployed trees to cult up and sell, but the trees were still lying there. Mr Morgan said it was not reasonable to condemn the whole "lot on the experience of one unemployed. They could) not let women and children starve because they were tied to lazy men. He was 'suire every farmer was getting three meals a day. Mr R. S. Saown: I think you are wrong there. When the willingness of the unemployed was mentioned Mr D. Muggeridge said he had) offered Is an hour and the relief , secretary at Hawera said he would not ask men to take the work at that figure. 'Mr 0. Pearce ('relief secretary): That was at haymaking time? ■j Mr Muiggeridge: Yes. Mi- Pearce: Didn't a man go out? Mu- Mmggeridge: Yes, after my man found him in the street. Mr Pearce: T iinstructed him to go. .Mr Morgan said he was speaking on beihafllf oif fellow citizens who were not gettin|g enough to live on. Tf they satisfy their consciences that the men were .not worth assisting and that their women and children. Sli ould go short all tihev had to do was to tear up the order slliilps they would get. There was no compulsion about it. Mr P. Mills, so nr., said it was only fair to say that his experience did not coincide with opinions expressed by other members. Many of the on runplowed were good fellows. The chairman (Mr 11. Thrush) stated that it Would be no more absurd to ask 2d on pigs or |d per lb. on butterfat. It was stated by several speakers that the cash received during the early months of spring for calves was all that a lot of farmers had to cany on with. . Mr Morgan in oandlusioni said the committee wouild he only too pleased to get orders of even a. penny a calf on as few as 1(2 calves. Mr Morgan was thanked for his attendance.