RELIEF WORKERS.
MONTHLY PAY A HARDSHIP. GOVERNMENT GRANTS EEL ASATION. Between Levin and Shannon there are nearly fifty men employed by the Public Works Department on the road work for the relief of unemployment. About half of them live in Levin, going to their work by motor-bus daily, and the rest reside at Shannon. Mr Tuiti McDonald, M.P., was (recently acquainted with the fact that the system of monthly payment of wages by the Public. Works Department was a serious hardship to men who had no resources to carry them over the period to their first “pay,” and who were experiencing difficulty in the absence of their wages. Mr McDonald, when in Wellington, took the matter up with the Hon. E. A. Ransom. Minister of Public Works, who has now replied as follows: —“Regarding your representations on behalf of the relief workers living in Levin but employed at Shannon, those men not known to storekeepers can obtain from the Engineer, a guaranteed order enabling them to obtain necessary goods to the value of £4 over a period of one month. If necessary this can be done for a further month, by which time the men should be in a position to deal on their own account with the stores. As an alternative to this, married men, after working two weeks, can obtain an advance of 76 per cent, of their earnings up to a period of a fortnight.”
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Shannon News, 22 November 1929, Page 2
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238RELIEF WORKERS. Shannon News, 22 November 1929, Page 2
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