SYSTEM OF RELIEF

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 167, 11 April 1932, Page 11

SYSTEM OF RELIEF

Unemployed in Dunedin Want Change STREET PROCESSIONS Dominion Special Service. Dunedin, April 10. The demonstrations and street processions which are being promoted by the unemployed in Dunedin as a protest against the insufficiency of the relief were continued on Saturday, when, In the morning, a crowd numbering some hundreds gathered outside the Hospital Board’s ofiice demanding that a meeting of the board be called for the purpose of discussing a return to the system of issuing relief orders. When this demand was refused the. crowd formed into a procession and marched through the city, representatives interviewing the heads of business firms and soliciting donations. A fair amount of foodstuffs was collected in this manner and distributed during the afternoon and evening.

A number of restaurants and hotels provided free dinners for the majority of the demonstrators, who continued to hold open-air meetings, interspersed with processions till toward midnight. In the afternoon a mob gathered outside tbe police station, where two of the leaders interviewed .Superintendent Eccles and asked whether any of the demonstrators would be victimised as a result of the day’s proceedings. Superintendent Eccles, however, refused to discuss the question aud would make no promise.