RATES NOT UNIFORM.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 16, 20 January 1933, Page 9

RATES NOT UNIFORM.

PAPAKURA RELIEF WORKS. PROTEST AT PUBLIC MEETING. (From Our Own Correspondent.) PAPAKURA, Wednesday, About 80 people attended a meeting in the Parish Hall, Papakura, last evening, for the purpose of adopting a resolution of protest against the Unemployment Board in not paying wages on a uniform basis. Professional and businessmen, farmers and relief workers were represented at the gathering.- The Rev. W. C. Wood presided.

Mr. A. Blair stated that men on the Franklin County work on the Great South Rosd were receiving a lower wage for the hours worked than any other relief workers in the Dominion. The basis was 7/6 per day, as against 10/ elsewhere, and they worked a five-day week for 37/0. In the case of men without children this Was certainly better than in many other parts, but fot men with large families, say, from six to 10 it was very much below the standard. It did not appear just; that such Variations should exist. The chairman said he had never been able to fathom why the Unemployment Board's action in differentiating between various groups of unemployment and men in metropolitan and country areas. Mr. H. E. McEntie, chairman of Papakura Town Board, supported the previous speaker. The motion as outlined was proposed by Mr. A. W. Blair, a relief worker, and was seconded by Rev. Mr. Wood.