THE UNEMPLOYED
A STRONG PROTEST MADE.
TO GOVERNMENT’S ATTITUDE
(Per,Press Association — Copyriyht.)
AUCKLAND, August 8,
A strong protest against the Govern* ment attitude to the relief workers' vegetable-growing scheme was made hy the Mayor of Auckland (Mr G. W. Hutchison). He said that three weelti ago an official of the Agricultural Department asked that) a conference of local bodies be convened to discuss the scheme. The conierence was held and-the offiial sta'ced that v.ie"* Government was prepared to supply seeds. Now the department, said it had no authority to issue seed. “It seems veyy diiscriedvtable,” kaid the Mayor, ‘Tor .the Government publicly to announce that. it. will do a thing and put us to the trouble of calling a conference, and after this lapse of time its local representatives say they now nothing of the scheme, and; can do nothing to help the unfortunate man who has taken the; Government at its word?""In future’ unless lam ■satisfied that any accredited representative of the Unemployment Board has authority to give practical assistance, I must decline to invite any local representatives to meet him.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1932, Page 5
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182THE UNEMPLOYED Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1932, Page 5
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