"A CRYING SHAME."
RESTORATION OF NAPIER,
CITIZENS WHO ARE REFUGEES,
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
NAPIER, this day. "I am afraid legislative compulsion will be necessary to complete the job," ■said Commissioner J. S. Barton, S.M., in stressing at last night's meeting of 'the Napier City Council the importance of all citizens, who were refugees, returning to Napier immediately. "It is a crying shame that people are staying away as they are doing," Mr. Barton added. "I do not say that everyone is doing this sort of thing but there are some cases. If a man getting his wages is keeping his wife and family away living on relief funds he will receive no preferential payment. Every Napier citizen living in Wellington or in any other place who eats up a pound's worth of food eats up a sum that might go toward the restoration of this city."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 70, 24 March 1931, Page 3
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