AN IRISHMAN'S RISE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 35, 11 February 1935, Page 6

AN IRISHMAN'S RISE.

The Unemployment Board announced increased payments to men on relief work and those jjn sustenance. ' Letters * J have already appeared in your paper from' men in different grades on relief work, showing how instead of an increase they are suffering a decrease. Bofore married men with children received payment for work and ration allowance. Under the new scheme the rations are stopped and with the increase in payments they are 'now at a loss, in some cases amounting to 2/1 and in other cases 2/9 per week. In the case of married men, who arc considered too old to work after reaching CO years and are placed on sustenance, how do th'ey fare? Before this Irishman's rise married men on sustenance without dependents, except the wife, received £1 per week and 7 pints of milk per week, such milk costing 1/SJ. The board credited each man in this class as receiving £1 1/5J per week. Very good so far. Now these ipcn are receiving £1 1/ per week, and the milk ration is abolished. It is the same through all grades, those with two, three and four, up to seven children, all being granted less to live on than before this so-called rise. . Where, then, is the extra cost of £175,000 per annum 1 A VICTIM.