JOBS TURNED DOWN

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 798, 19 October 1929, Page 1

JOBS TURNED DOWN

RELIEF STILL EXPECTED BY SOME MEN WARNING TO YOUNG MEN “It is alarming that so many men are turning down jobs offered by the Government, and still asking the Hospital Board to help them,” said Mr. W. K. Howitt, chairman of the relief committee of the board, to THE SUN this morning. “It is quite wrong, and the board will not do it,” Mr. Howitt said. ‘‘The policy laid down is that a man, once having found work, is quite ineligible for charitable relief, even though the work offering may be in another part of the country.” Destitute men could be equipped for country work by the Labour Bureau when they had to live in camps, said the chairman. It was the duty of every man willing to work to take what the Government offered. A warning needed to be issued to young men that they could expect no sympathy whatever from the board if they refused work offered anywhere. It was expected, Mr. Howitt continued, that the unemployed lists at the board’s office would automatically dwindle almost to nothing as far as able-bodied men were concerned as soon as the Government’s scheme was properly under way.