PAY-ORDER SYSTEM

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 335, 23 September 1932, Page 6

PAY-ORDER SYSTEM

DISGUSTED.

(To the Editor). Sir, — May I be permitted to relate, through your columns, an experience which befel me, a relief worker. today. I had finished my allotment of work for the week and finding my cupboard bare, decided to approach the manager of a local grocery estahlishment, with a view to signing an ord- • er against my pay for the purpose of 1 oblaining . a few urgent supplies to tide myself, wife and family of two, over till Saturday — pay day of the borough relief men. The manager regretted his inabilty to do business on the pay-order . ystem as he had been notified by , the lown cleik that no future orders v. i 1 be collected by his office on men's wages as it placed too much work :j,;on his staff. Now, sir, the relief worker, in many ' cas'-s in the past has been only too _ glad to avaii himself of the order on ». :ges system. It is a great conven- " once when ihe larder requires reieiiishing auring the week and he i:°. devoid of available cash. It is uite fully recognised by the writer that grocers are not to be expected 'i. k c cdit these hard times, espec- • v.j.Iing with those who are . ■> i- oi an inadequate wage to iovdhe t: e necessities of life; but do you not thmk it an extra hardship for the relief worker to have this abolition of pay-orders imposed? In my case it means that I should carry on without the necessities of life, and await the pleasure of the powers-that-be to pay me my mere pittance two days hence. However, thanks to others than those administeting our relief work systems. the writer found in the grocer in question, an understanding human. — I am, etc.

Rotorua, Sept. 22.