RELIEF WORK.
POSITION OF SEPARATED MEN A correspondent has written to the "Auckland Star" stating that men who ' are separated from their wives are penalised under the relief scheme of employment. Ho states that an announcement was recently made that all married men employed in county council camps were to receive 12/ a day, less tax, for a fiveday week, and that single men would receive 27/6 free of tax,-but that where 1 men were separated from their wives and a reduction order operated against their earnings, an increase of onfy 2/0 a week was paid to the worker, and the allotment to the wife remained unaltered. The correspondent said that i the Unemployment Board evidently con- i sidercd that a separated man with wife i and children was not in as necessitous < circumstances as a man living with his , family. He claimed that in most cases : a separated man was worse off than a single man, and that he should bo ! assisted to rehabilitate himself, instead ] of being doomed to an existence in a £ camp. it
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 245, 16 October 1935, Page 10
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177RELIEF WORK. Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 245, 16 October 1935, Page 10
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