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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 208, 2 September 1932, Page 3

STRUCK OFF LIST.

EIGHTY RELIEF WORKERS. REFUSAL TO GROW VEGETABLES. BONFIRE MADE OF NOTICES.. (By Telegraph.-—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. At a meeting of the committee of the garden allotment scheme the director of city reserves asked what was being done to those relief workers who were taking no notice of the order to grow vegetables. Mr. G. G. M. Mitchell, of the Labour Bureau, said such men were being deprived of work by the bureau. Eighty men had been put off the lists last week, and another 20 were being put off this week. On one job the men had made a bonfire o€ the notices, and in other cases they had torn them up and thrown them into the aii\ NO TROUBLE IN AUCKLAND. When the Wellington report was referred to Mr. W. Slaughter, officer in cliargc of unemployment at Auckland, this afternoon lie said that no such trouble had been experienced locally. "Everything in Auckland is going well," he said. "I am pleased to say that we have not got that undesirable element in Auckland. In. the big majority of cases the relief workers are playing the game and doing all in their power to help themselves. Wherever possible the scheme is being availed of. We have had no occasion whatever to threaten men that they will be put off the list." Mr. Slaughter added that he thought that probably the climatic conditions at Auckland were more suitable to the carrying out of the schcme than they were in the South.