MEAT FOR WORKLESS
("Post" Special Commissioner).
unemployment board buys stock for purpose MINISTER'S REPLY TO QUESTION
WELLINGTON, Thursday. In the House of Representatives to-day Mr. W. F. Polson ' (tndependent Stratford), asked the Minister in charge of Unemployment, the Hon. J. G. Coates, whether he h,ad ipvestigated the plan put forward hy the Farmers Union that the Unemployment Board should buy from fafmers for delivery at abattoirs good quality cow hpef for distribution aipong the unemployed at a price low,er than the meat could he obtained for at present. Such a plap, would keep dotvn the cost of living for the upemployed and at the same time giye the farmers a price f o? their bqef. ■ • ... In reply, Mr. Coates said that he wopld he " very pleased tp Consider any proposal the Farmers Union might ■ p.uf forward. The Board had already b'o,ught f,2QQ head of catfle, Tvpt t^esp woulcl be insufflcient to —
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 199, 15 April 1932, Page 5
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151MEAT FOR WORKLESS Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 199, 15 April 1932, Page 5
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