DYING OF STARVATION
HARROWING PICTURE OF SYDNEY UNEMPLOYED DEPUTATION TO GOVERNMENT (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 10.15 a.m. SYDNEY, Today. At a deputation which waited on. the Acting-Premier, the Hon. E. A. Buttenshaw, to discuss relief work to absorb unemployed, Mr. D. McDonald, superintendent of the Pyrmont soup kitchen, said: —“I have met hundreds of cases where men have been dying of starvation. I have seen men collapse, waiting their turn for food.”
Mr. Buttenshaw promised to consult Cabinet.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 724, 25 July 1929, Page 9
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