CITY DEMONSTRATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 77, 1 April 1932, Page 5

CITY DEMONSTRATION.

MARCH TO HOSPITAL BOARD. PARTY FROM HUNTLY. A crowd of between two and three hundred unemployed workers marched from the waterfront through Queen Street to the Auckland Hospital Board\> office this morning. Later the procession went to the Labour Bureau in Shortland Street. Half a dozen police constables and several detectives accompanied the demonstrators and the whole proceedings were quiet.

At the Hospital Board's office a deputation was received. In the absence of the chairman, Mr. W. Wallace, the men ttere heard by Mr. C. Newman, relieving officer., Mr. Newman later declined to fay what the deputation had asked, but it is understood that they requested the relief of mothers who were in a distressed condition, the necessity of a supply of milk being stressed. A large crowd formed up outside, the labour Bureau, the numbers being greatly swelled at midday bv interested spectators. After nearly "an hour it was announced by one of the leaders that a deputation had been received by Mr. A f} ter " U had asked that work would be provided for single men. Mr. .Slaughter, it was given out, had exPressed sympathy, but had said that he ™W0 do little. There was a demand «om some members of the crowd that -ur. Slaughter himself should come to we steps of the bureau and address the fowd, but the spokesman declared that jnat was unreasonable. Later a deputation representing the Huntly branch of Me movement waited on Mr. Slaughter. ±ne demonstrators were reinforced °y a party of six from Huntly, who «aa arrived at an early hour this morn™fr Banners were carried. A large number of those who took part in the demonstration were women.

Waimakariri strike.

TROUBLE REPORTED AT KAIAPOI. (By Telegraph.— -Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. tW Tt7 Se * tlement has lieell reached in " e -Waimakariri relief workers' strike. ,V; lnf OTmal conference yesterday failed, ,'L men , ??* behl ? Prepared to accept the •oposal that they should continue work ~;'.' ; n ext meeting of the trust on ;,','" J0 ln expectation that something setter could be done for them then. " is reported that a number of relief orders engaged near Kaiapoi have also • "Wk as a protest against working a six-day week for 37/6?