SOUTHERN TROUBLE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 536, 20 May 1933, Page 5

SOUTHERN TROUBLE

(Press Assn.—

RELIEF WORKERS FORMULATE DEMAND FOR RATIONS "WE WANT FOOD"

-By Telegraph — Copyright).

Christchurch, Friday Three hundred unemployed- from relief works marched through the city this morning, carrying sugar sacks. They waitej on the Mayor, demanding further assistance, having ■been refused rations by the Hospital Board. The board has been administering weekly grants from the mayor's fund, but the fund has been exhausted. The men indignantly protested to the Mayor. ; Addressing the mayor coneerning the Hospital Board's > attitude, a spokesman said that he was convinced "that they had been subjeeted to this f orm of tyranny and oppression long enough. If the board could not provide relief someone must. It was a serious deputation, with a serious demand. "We want food," he continued. "It is a pretty state of alfairs when a human being is tr-eated in this fashion. We want food and want it now."

The Mayor promised to do what he could before to-morrow. He informed the men that if they chose twa of their number could waif on the Government as a deputation, and he would see that their expenses to Wellington were paid. Still dissatisfied, a large section of the men next marched to Government. Buildings to interview an ofiicer of the Labour Department, who will meet them this afternoon.