RELIEF WAGES
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Sir, — Happening to visit Whaka this morning on business, I noticed about twenty young Maori girls with their swags who app'eared to be waiting for a conveyance to take them out to work. On- inaking inquiries I was informed by a reliable person that they were going to Tdmherlalnds nursery to pull trees ready for planting. I v>ras further informed that they were to receive 8/- per day for a six day week which works out at 48/Now, sir, if the Timberlands Company can alford to pay young girls with no responsibilitdes 8/- -per day for pulling and bundling plants (which is much easier and not so h'ard on clothes as planting them) dori't you think that the State Forestry Dep'artment are exploiting the relief workers under the , preserit depression by holding a sword over their heads and trying to force; them irito camps at starvation wages. . Our Government must realise that the New Zealand worker wall not tolerate: conscription of lahour, and the sooner they come down to brkss tacks and provide the worker and his family with a decent living the sooner such things as Communism and strikes will he forogotten. — I am, etc.,
Rotorua, June 8. ■■■„. -n., ... . . .
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 553, 9 June 1933, Page 4
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204RELIEF WAGES Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 553, 9 June 1933, Page 4
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