GRAVE REPORT.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 45, 22 February 1929, Page 7

GRAVE REPORT.

t MINERS' DISTRESS. i i Poverty And Idleness Breed J Physical Wreck. J | SOUTH WALES CONDITIONS. | (Australian acd N 7.. Tress Association i I i ].<>\T>OV Febiuar\ '21. I The M -tv .1 hv.< j—•! ;i crave rrjiHi'i <•< ■:i<-rvui'.iz llio cond;j tn»n~ nil llu' <-<ialli<d<l> in Soul .j ; Wal< -. This say- tho effects oi ]>;■• •!< ll.'.'im'l jmivv: - are IM-CIII:J1""C m- ' erea-ilvriv v. •*, :«-(•:<tile on ihe health *■'. i litell. w . iliM'll and ell .i«i: ell. j A general detei 101 at ion in ti.<* ] b*i -ii|in- of ilic -nffet i-i - i- in - uiit. 1 If .situation i» i;iij::: 1:: Heleil 11! liii drill 111, , ton. Tin- i:ea i e-t a 1•) 'l • iicil I" it va- ' ■ - tdiirin* tin- eot.oii famine ol ]so 24. I — ii;ir tin' de-t met i\e effect nf : idlem—. Upon chaiaetei a lid morals-. ill' 'author* of tin- lepo.t mo liie\ ate inoi • ! -truck by the di'J'l e->ioii, ] irl le->llC— ■ ard l:o]i< !<—in-- of the unemployed [miners than bv their r.etiial privatioii\V< ,*|| i- needed by tile men even moie than fi-od or t ioi i . The I'iime Mini-'.er. Mr. Raid" in. s !t" meet the i-\iiii; ; .i- oi the Miner-' | F<tler.ition on Ma nil to di-eu-- ill-* i J■< -r- il i< 11 oil the coailii !d»I A Hriti-h ofiii-ial wiiele-s mei»-a_o j-a;v- the fund <if the 1-ord Ma\or of J lvoiidun for the relief of distiv — on the I i-oaltield- now appnta<he= a total of ■UTtHi.tMiO. Thi- will be inert used 1 > | 1.4*H1 by the <»o\eriinient s jtound j lor ] iini::<l subsidy. The amount already ! disti ll.uted exceed- •4.";2.01H1. j Ail re:jui-it ion- for I>■m >1 « and clolliiir: J for \» oiii.*n i- — • childten in the di-tTc--ed Ja:ea> ha*, c iieen lncT. the local <*on.- ' l* are in <-a>es of illne-., oi reeidcut liy j;i\ special grant*, j They are al-o lielj.ini' men to a<-cept i !re-!i employment by supplying them ; v. itli fiii.dt>. j A»-i»tanee i- al-o pi\rn in fecdj ui_ r -« 100 l < luldien and. v. here upcc -• ,-.:i\. in the pi o\ i- h ill of extra nouri-li-j ::-e;»L t<» families. Other Us-eh to which I the moi.e\ -ujiplied l.\ the central fund I- 1 ic'iiir put include the granting of j — i-l.*'i:ce imiaid the iian-lel* of yuunj pe<iple, a-si-iam-e in <*ertaia ii alters in eonneiiion with education jind a--i-taiu-e in lh<* < ultivation «•# I market garden allotnieiil