NO RATIONS.
PROTEST TO MAYOR. RELIEF WORKERS INDIGNANT. MR. SULLIVAN'S ADVICE. (By Telegraph.—Pres's Association.) CHRISTCHUR'CH, this day. Three hundred unemployed men from relief works marched through the city this morning carrying sugar sacks. They hud been refused rations by the Hospital Board, which had been administering weekly grants from the Mayor's fund until now the fund is exhausted. The men waited on the Mayor, Mr. D. G. Sullivan, M.P., and protestn'. indignantly. Addressing the Mayor concerning the attitudo of the Hospital Board, the spokesman said that if the board could not provide relief someone must. It was a serious deputation with a serious demand. The Mayor promised to do what he could before to-morrow. He informed the men that if they chose two of their number they could wait on the Government as a deputation and he would see that their expenses to Wellington were paid. Still dissatisfied, a large section of the men next marched to Government Buildings to interview the officer in chargo of the Labour Department, who is to meet them this afternoon.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 116, 19 May 1933, Page 8
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176NO RATIONS. Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 116, 19 May 1933, Page 8
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