AID TO UNEMPLOYED

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 155, 28 March 1932, Page 9

AID TO UNEMPLOYED

Self-Help Club Active DISTRIBUTION OF MEAT Masterton, March 26. : One hundred and sixty-five unemployed men with 532 dependants received free meat in Masterton on the eve of Easter, to help tide them over the holiday period. Altogether 12001 b. of meat was distributed. This was arranged for by the mayor, Mr. T. Jordan, and paid for out of the mayor's unemployment relief fund. Members of the Unemployed Workers' Self-Help Club prepared the meat for distribution. Two gangs of unemployed men are at present engaged in cutting firewood on nearby farms. Arrangements will be made for the transport of the wood to the homes of the workers concerned. A number of Carterton unemployed have undertaken to dear and slump a 20-acre paddock. The farmer is finding half the cost of explosives, and in'addition has undertaken to transport, the wood in return for one day's work by the wood-cutting gang. Under the gardenia scheme organised to enable unemployed men to grow vegetables for their own use, and that of the families, the temporary use of a good deal of land has been grunted by its owners, but further areas are required. There are at present 26 plots, approximately 44 feet, square, which have been allotted. Some of the plots are being worked individually.' while in other instances two men are cooperating.