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SUSTENANCE PAYMENTS.D

Despite every human effort on the part of the Unemployment Board, it is very evident that many men over sixty, fit only for light employment, cannot under' any scheme now in force be found suitable work. To my personal knowledge many thus placed are suffering untold misery. I registered in December last, but all the satisfaction so far received is a polite request to call every fourteen days. Surely in such cases the sustenance, payment to which, according to the Act, we are justly entitled should be paid. Many men would prefer to starve rather than seek the shelter of the dosshouse. Under present economic conditions the old age pension age should be reduced to sixty and the period of residence in New Zealand to twenty years for British-born subjects. CHARITY.

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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 66, 19 March 1931, Page 6

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SUSTENANCE PAYMENTS.D Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 66, 19 March 1931, Page 6

SUSTENANCE PAYMENTS.D Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 66, 19 March 1931, Page 6