SINGLE MEN'S CAMP.
CONDITIONS AT TONGAJEtIRO. "DISGRACEFUL," ASSERTS M.P. "Everything about the camp is a dastardly disgrace," declared Mr. F. Langstone, M.P. for Waimarino, at a deputation to the Et. Hon. J. G. Coates, Minister of Public Works, yesterday, when referring to an unemployment camp at Tongariro. Mr. Langstone said the men had to walk two miles and a half to work, and tramp it back again in the evening. The location was bad. and the sanitation an abomination. The food was brought out. by truck, and dumped out in the sun or rain, and no steps were taken to cover it up. No consideration was given to the men. who were "up in arms'' at the treatment meted out to them. The conditions at the camp should not be tolerated. The Public Works Department was averse to the establishment of cookhouses, but when a camp was established under difficult conditions a cook-house was essential. "It is not decent to ask men to live in a camp where they have to their food under their beds,' , said Mr. Langstone. The whole position, he said, indicated exceedingly bad organisation.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 290, 8 December 1931, Page 12
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188SINGLE MEN'S CAMP. Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 290, 8 December 1931, Page 12
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