INADEQUATE SUSTENANCE.
Mr. Semple is deserving of all praise for his efforts to improve the lot of the sustenance men. The pity of it is that he seems to be playing a lone hand and that there are no others in high places who are in positions to view this grim 'fight with starvation to support him in his charitable endeavour. The question is boiled down to this. Can a man, his wife and three children pay rent and live on 23/ per week? The answer is "jSTo!" Then who is going to suffer? Probably the parents, and certainly the children, sent barefooted, ragged and hungry to scliool on 2/ per week. The Minister of Employment has stated that only unfit men are being refused work; but is "it not the unfit who require extra food and comforts ? If there is no money for the unemployed, tax again. The moneyed folk in England have been taxed out of their ancestral homes and off their broad acres, and ihave taken it cheerfully. MiEIECY.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 27, 1 February 1934, Page 6
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172INADEQUATE SUSTENANCE. Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 27, 1 February 1934, Page 6
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