MARRIED COUPLES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 133, 7 June 1926, Page 9

MARRIED COUPLES.

HOLDING TWO JOBS. A POINTED CRITICISM. "Several married women, without children, whose husbands are in constant work and good positions, are to-day also employed by firms in the city. I know many cases of the kind, and I think the time is opportune for the Employment Committee to make an appeal to employers to give single women preference," said a member at to-day's meeting of the Unemployed Relief Committee. Mr. Spencer: I know several cases myself. Mr. Oakley-Browne: It is rather a difficult position to deal with. Staff-captain Davies said he had several young men and women quite willing to go to the country if jobs were found for them.

Mr. Slaughter said farmers wanted men, and he was authorised to pay the fare of a man going to a job providing he signed an order for a refund of the amount.

Mr. Wallace: If any man has a job to go to and no money to get there, he can always get his fare from the Charitable Aid Board if he calls upon us. He was particularly struck with the fine type of man who sought assistance. The men wanted work, not charity.