FULL TIME WORK

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21534, 25 July 1935, Page 20

FULL TIME WORK

TO TltE EDITOR OP THE PBBBB. Sir,—l would like to ask a question through your paper. What has become of the promises given about full time works that were to be started this year to absorb unemployment? One scheme in particular, the Band dunes north of New Brighton, which are supposed to be taken over by the Public Works Department to absorb 200 relief workers. Why the delay? How much longer must we go on living on charity? One has always been led to believe that charity was for the aged and infirm and not for able-bodied people who crave the right to work for a living. I have a wife and three children to try to feed and clothe on about 14s

a week after rent, firing, bread, milk, and gas have been paid. Being energetic, I have tried every channel to secure work, even in the country, without avail. My children are my handicap for work in the country, as I have been often told that though I would suit the job, the station owner would not have a couple ivith children, even where a cottage is supplied. Perhaps some of your readers in the country would know of a cottage vacant where one could make a home, keep a cow and fowls, and be handy for such work as lambing, fencing, mustering, harvesting, or any other general work. I would be very grn'eful for any information received. —"Sours, etc., v W. ERRIDGE. July 22, 1935.