A SOLDIER'S GRIEVANCE.
lam a returned soldier. I sacrificed a good business in Gisborne to enlist. After being turned down in Gisborne and Auckland on. account of defective eyesight, I proceeded to Wellington and was passed there. Since the war I have met with very little success. Over two years ago I went to Australia to try _my luck there, but I could not obtain sufficient work to exist on and had it not been that X had friends there who stood by me I would have starved, as many are doing at the present time, I returned to New Zealand towards the end of last year and obtained two days' relief work just before Christmas from the Labour Bureau. On filling in the new registration card last week I was informed that I was not entitled to any assistance until I had been in the country six months. This means that till the six months expires I can starve, although I have paid the unemployed tax. Is this a fair deal? ARTHUR H. MEAD.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 81, 7 April 1931, Page 6
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175A SOLDIER'S GRIEVANCE. Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 81, 7 April 1931, Page 6
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