UNEMPLOYED RELIEF

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5448, 15 July 1929, Page 2

UNEMPLOYED RELIEF

LOCAL MEN ONLY. A CRITICAL PROBLEM. The limit of employment available on relief works in Paeroa has about been reached. It is impossible for the Borough Council to put more men on at the moment, so personal applications for work only retard the potential benefits to the individual in the long run, as the time taken up with innumerable interviews delays considerably the work in hand. Local men should register at the Borough Office, where a list is open, and can rest assured that every consideration, attention, and sympathy will be given their claims. But to avoid embarrassment and waste of time on both sides it should distinctly be understood that this applies to local men only. Much as the council regrets, it cannot give a hearing to any outside man, as the problem of men resident in the borough is too serious in itself, and even their total absorption on relief works a matter of doubt. To ea.c a critica, situation somewhat farmers in neid ><f hands are requested to communicate with the Borough Office. The whole subject was thoroughly gone into at the council meeting on Thursday, with the result that the Mayor, Mr W. Marshall, asked that fullest possible publicity be given to the foregoing, in the hope that through co-operation and understanding the complexities of the problem might be lessened.