A RELIEF WORKER'S EXPERIENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 163, 12 July 1928, Page 6

A RELIEF WORKER'S EXPERIENCE.

On Friday I was given a work's employtr.ert with the < ity Council through* the intermediary of th-- Patriotic Association and presented rr.ystlf for work a: the Epscm reserve at 7.0n Saturday morning. Unfortunately. I am. not vet starved and cowed town io the docile condi*ion of a■ c'* s-errilitv so desirable in the unemployed :r an hood of New Zealand, for I opened "the bail bv asking ii that wa> tne place where Gordon Coat r *~" » r ab W22ei were paid."' Of course it was verv reprehensible. I mmht have a-kei if it ws» the place where Mr. Coate*' •"sustenance"' was earned by the sweat of the brow, but I did not. The ganger. good man. f.red me before I started work—what el-e could the poor fellow do? That, however. is not what I want to h-k. It is this: How lon™ are the peorie of New Zealand, and Auckland in jiarticuiar, g"ing to allow th°mselve« to be disgraced bv their Governmtnt ? It is bad enough to 1-e out ox trork atter *»veek. enoush have to beg for a job from place to place", bad enough to see your resource; dwindling till calamity overcomes you and you are forced into the street, without beinr forced r~ the strongest-weakest Government • that * ever cursed New Zealand to swallow the last drer» of manhood and accept scab wanes or starve. EIDLEY H. COLEBBOOK (.".326.'. 'Our correspondent seems to have lost something besides a top—his sense of proportion. Jf he feels so strongly about the rate" of war's, why did he go to a iob where it ruled * —Ed.]