IN DESPERATE NEED
“HHHERE are people in this town *- receiving charitable aid who should not be getting it,” said a speaker at a meeting of unemployed at the Civic Square yesterday. “You can see them at the Charitable Aid Board’s office every day in their fur coats a.nd with their bangles and wristlet watches,” he continued. “I went along the other day and the chairman told me that I was paying too much rent. He wanted me to shift into rooms.” The speaker paused in order to let the enormity of the suggestion sink in “Into rooms,” he repeated, “where I would have to put up with the inconvenience of not being able to play my gramophone.” And they say that New Zealand is not a musical country.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 126, 18 August 1927, Page 15
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128IN DESPERATE NEED Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 126, 18 August 1927, Page 15
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