A RELIEF WORKER’S COMPLAINT
«o m BDirom or in ckem. Sir,—About' a month ago I,, wa * working on relief at the Marshland School on the No. 5 scheme, and 1 was sacked by, the headmaster of that school for lying down in the children’s shelter shed \ asleep, so he reported. I am a sufferer from severe rheumatism, having spent nearly two years in treatment at the Christchurch Public Hospital. Sometimes even now I can hardly walk with this complaint. I reported to the Labour Bureau and a clerk, there told me that T, should have to stand down pending a report from Wellington oh tev being sacked. At different times I have given the. bureau doctor’s, certificates on my ■-> complaint, so I should like to know why my case had to go to Wellington, when the local Labour. Bureau, was in receipt of the lull facts about my rheumatism. I also was told when the report came back from Wellington that I should receive no sustenance for six weeks, but was list off light with three weeks, being told to go to the hospital to .get my daily breed, for myself, wife, and child, and having to make a, trip of nearly 30 nmes* for this charity relief. „ , _ The clerk then told me that U the Education Board would take me back
I should not w I went to see the board and stated hiy case to the pay clerk; who gave me a note to be reinstated, without the slightest trouble—a fine z ' gentleman ' rodeeoV' When I returned to the Labour Bureau the clerk then told me that I sfcftuld •receive no sustenance for that week, after stating that I should not be. penalised. I should'also like "to know ;why I Have not got '& start on the two months work, seeing that most of the fellows I - last worked .with have started again. T want work, hot charity. —Yours, etc., .-i7''"h l-•.,'■•■••,•"• {■-./■,?;.< :" It TtOSSHER.
ApriJL 22, 1038, ■■'. V L -M [Mr H. J. Anthony, assistant District Employment Omeer- to whom this letter was referred, said ho had no comment tp .make,.! :.:f'.,:■, - . •>,.'•.-.'. '., -, ■
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22387, 28 April 1938, Page 7
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