PENALISED FOR WORKING
Unemployed Man Loses Relief Dominion Special Service. Foxton, Sep'ember 3. An unemuloyed man waited on the Foxton Unemployment Committee recently and stated that one day last month he had been offered a casual job on the Foxton wharf. As he made himself liable to exclusion from relief work if he refused the job he accepted the position, and earned 4/8. By so doing his time on the No. 5 relief work was immediately reduced for the current month, and actually, through accepting the casual job he lost £l/5/- for the month. The committee regretted that it was unable to make up the time on account of the regulations, and sympathised with the applicant
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19310904.2.46
Bibliographic details
Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 291, 4 September 1931, Page 8
Word Count
116PENALISED FOR WORKING Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 291, 4 September 1931, Page 8
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in