“Too Many Loafers Among Workless”
SEND WIVES TO TOIL (.Special to THE SUN.) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. “It’s about time spongers were cleaned up,” said Mrs. Herbert, who is in charge of the unemployment relief depot, to a SUN reporter to-day. “There are far too many loafers among the Christchurch unemployed, who prejudice the genuine man in the eyes of the public. It is a common occurrence for such men to send their wives out to work while they attend demonstration meetings in Victoria Square." Mrs. Herbert considers that imprisonment is too good for some of these men, and only yesterday she threatened to have one man arrested for obtaining goods from the depot by false pretences, unless he would agree to put in a day’s work to pay for his rations. The man began work today.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 68, 11 June 1927, Page 14
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