FOOD DEMANDED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 68, 21 March 1935, Page 8

FOOD DEMANDED.

WOMEN AT CHRISTCHURCH. RELIEF DEPOT INCIDENT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. Demanding the immediate issue of food rations', a party of between 30 and 40 women besieged the Metropolitan Relief Association's central depot this afternoon and refused to leave. Tactful persuasion' by two police sergeants and a few constables led to tile building being cleared, but not until one of the women had been removed by the two sergeants from the office of the honorary director, .Mr. A. B. Macintosh, Most of the women were wives of relief workers. They all claimed they were in dire need of food for themselves and their families. They asked that food be issued to them, and stated they would remain in the building until something was done for them. There was an almost continuous■ bantering of the police and members of the depot staff. Mr. Macintosh said nothing could he done for the women. They still would not leave. The police sergeants tried to persuade them to go, and eventually all the women save one left. The police had to use some force in escorting tli.it woman from the building. The position of the Relief Association is that it.=> funds, all provided by public subscription, are exhausted. It still receives occasional gifts of goods and •money, but these are used to help families in the direst need through illhealth or some infirmity.