RELIEF CUTS
A FRESH EXPEDIENT. ' AUCKLAND, September 29. It is understood that the Unemployment Board intends; making reductions in relief -in the case.-of- unemployed men whose families or wives earn something in proportion to .such .earnings. A re cord is being taken at Auckland by the Labour Department of the wives of relief Workers, who work at factories. It is believed the unemplyoed husbands of women engaged in factories art to have their share of work" cut down. It is pointed out that female workers all pay the dole, and that it is not the duty of the Labour Department staff to take tallies of the kind in question, and they should confine themselves to inspecting the sanitary conditions of factories, arrangements made for the comfort of employees, and the space, and not be sent round to find out which women hav e husbands working two or three days a week on relief. -If it is intended to reduce a husband’s earning on relief, became Ms wife is working in a factory, it simply means that she has to keep him.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 September 1932, Page 6
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181RELIEF CUTS Hokitika Guardian, 30 September 1932, Page 6
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