ABLE-BODIED MEN.
GRANT OF RELIEF OPPOSED. 'By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)
WHANGAREI, tki3 day. 'There is work for every able-bodied and for a great number that are n °V said Mr. Jas. MacKav at a meetof the Whangarei Hospital Board w hen an application for assistance was Reived from a Hikurangi unemployed MacKav contended that ableshould not be given charitjjMe aid. "Couldn't he get a job on damage relief works?" he asked. Ihev are not really relief works," Tn C. C'herrie, who lives at , urangi, "The authorities pick and <• oose, and only take those whom they wisider fit. Older men will not be con'tiered, although they would do better °J" ia n most of the young ones." t was agreed that handling a pick in.,'shovel could scarcely be termed "git work."
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 292, 10 December 1929, Page 9
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