RELIEF RATE OF PAY
9/- or 10/- Advocated COUNTY COUNCIL PROTEST By Telegraph—Press Association. Napier, December 8. The Hawke’s Bay County Council today resolved that a protest be made against the Government paying 14/- a day on relief works, as by so doing farmers were unable to get meu to work on farms at a weekly wage, or to get harvesters under two shillings an hour; further, farmers are unable to take advantage of the 7/- offered as a subsidy on production work. It was considered that relief pay should be made as unattractive as possible in order not to attract men from other emP ’one member suggested the rate should be nine or ten shillings a day. DUNEDIN PROTEST At a meeting of Hie Chamber of Commerce to-night a motion was carried emphatically protesting against the payment. of 14/- a day for relief work for the unemployed.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 64, 9 December 1930, Page 12
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