SINGLE UNEMPLOYED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 85, 11 April 1933, Page 6

SINGLE UNEMPLOYED.

"Single and Sunk" deplores having to live in a tent ten by twelve with a mate* I h avo lived a great part of my life in tents and can assure you that two men can live quite comfortably under such conditions, if they will only Wke the trouble and help themselves by setting their ten by twelve in good order. Personally I think a lot of the trouble in the camps to-day is that a great number of the single men who have had to go into camp are too dilatory to make themselves comfortable, but would look to someone else to do such work for them, as they have been used all their lives to have someone attend oil them. "C.C.M-'s" suggestion that relief workers should be dissuade from marriage, or those married from having families, I think unfair. In the early days m this country far larger families than now were the order of the day, wages then being thirty shillings a week of ten-hour days. those families have lived to be old men a n women, happy and robust, the children themselves having large families in most cases. What do we find to-day in Auckland? Young men who will not go into camp or soil their hands walking the streets or in the billiard saloons, while their wives or mothers are at work to keep them. Conditions are undoub edly bad, but young men will have to shoulder more responsibilities than they are at the present time doing, and so learn to rely more on themselves and be a credit to their country. OLD COLONIAL.