DEMAND FOR RATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 117, 20 May 1933, Page 11

DEMAND FOR RATIONS.

CHRISTCHURCH RELIEF MEN.

GRANT FOR WEEK-END.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. Tho three hundred relief workers who Protested to the Mayor, Mr. D. G. Sullival> M.P., against the stoppage of rations, caused by the depletion of the ■Mayor's fund, next marched to Government buildings and interviewed the officer in charge of the Labour Department, Mr. B, T. Bailey. j, , er the deputation, Mr. Bailey said :~ e Mayor had agreed to grant £40 from 8 Mayor's relief fund for relief of necessitous cases among the men. The ■Mayor had asked that this money be ' ributed by the benevolent commit"B of the Hospital Board. Mr. Bailey Ba id he had telephoned to the Unemployoffice in Wellington and had Aft e "whole position before it. bearing the result of the depuJ ® to Mr. Bailey, the whole body the men marched to the Hospital oarag office, where they -waited for i/ee-qnarters an hour while the tt ' anc * r ' Bailo y conferred with ® benevolent committee. The men reamed quiet and good-humoured, but wards the end of the long wait their Patience began to ebb. tj-fi 16 ou tc° m e of the conference was. + P_ e benevolent committee agreed distribute £40 for this week and that stance would be given to those men Tpr°£ would have been gi-anted omiij x. this week, if anything , one 0r them, it would be done vou Mr. Bailey's office, and the rat' 6V committee would grant rnii oll^, mon w ' lo were undero the stand-down week.