SUSTENANCE CU[?]

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 337, 26 September 1932, Page 4

SUSTENANCE CU[?]

MEETING OF PR0 ABSENCE OF BUSINESS CAUSES ADVEUSP COMMENT FURTHER EFFORT NEXl S,econd only to the grievj, they had suffered a suste^ Rotorua relief workers at. ing held in the Grand Th^ evening, passed adverse (. upon the absence of rcpre^ of local bodies and busijj, frcin a meetiug of protestt, combat the cuts. Finally, the meeting pa^ resolutions, the first condeg. Government and the Une&a Board for its handlin'g oftj ployment situation and ti# ment of the new cut; the seq ing forward a request that

be placed urnn the same f0 far as the abolition of & week went, as the men int and the third resolving ther meeting be held next S which a strong invitation toi men and local body represei; to be extended. In the course of his remai) the speakers, Mr. C. Hende? that the time was not fan the relief workers must figh they had been particularly! ing in Rotorua and although ence need not fear anything: ous behaviour, he must so® of warning. Something mu;; and he asked his liearers Government .would loolc if £ torua relief workers, the v of them, went to the polfe and dcmarided to be locked; Mr. Henderson also pi'opfe the sustenance cut just e merely the forerunner of as per cent. cut for -civil snvat! There were several spesi chair being taken by Cr. E, son in the absence from tliec the Mayor, Mr. T. Jacksc the majority of cases they evidence to the effeet that new cut it was absolutelyij for a relief worker to rrj meet. Instances were given i getting £5 5/- per month a; to pay out £4 per motiti leaving him £1 5/- to keepa two children, In connection with the e ance of the businessraen, sie sion occurred, a section of; ence led by Mr. Henderson,! moticn that the relief worl all connection with both k and businessmen's organisati: Mr. R. Vercoe and Mr. Ty!; majority which favoured ; confemnce to set up a unite against the cuts. Both bodie the fact that the cut mead I much to the businessmen a= the relief workers, since ti

earned on relief were solely the town. A division saw the party; of further confernece wint; to 36. Mr. Turner gave as hiss: the pressing needs of thius a scheme whereby the G: should ysttle all unoccupie the district and subseqaes burse the board's funds li of the land so improved. Hei of the benefits to Rotorua c! ist traffic. Mr. R. Vercoe voicsdfe of the Maori people at tfi position of the unemployii sured the audience of the sto of the raee in anythingidi make for the betternient o! the unemployed. Mr. Johnson gavo theii assurance of his sympat!i; workless and advised furtlie to enlist the support of ti; and businessmen. The general tenor of fc was earnest and orderly a evident that the majority t ing the constitutional nietb ing their grievances.