The Town Drift

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 111, 4 February 1935, Page 11

The Town Drift

Sir, —I fail to understand why the Unemployment Board sees fit to cut out the relief work here just because there is a little harvesting going on for about three /veeks. The relief workers were cut out as from January 1, and the board shows no signs of continuing the relief work. The harvesting is all finished, and one man with a wife and three children has gone to Feilding to live, and another man with three children is going to Wanganui next week, so that if they all go we shall not be able to get men when we want them. The fanners around here are all on small areas, and cannot afford to employ men in constant work. Anyhow, I fail to see why the men should be driven into the towns when they should be encouraged, to stay in the country, ns when conditions are better the farmers will be able to employ them. But they cannot stay and starve, and I and most of us paying the unemployment tax here are certainly not going to pay it for other areas; why should we?—l am, etc., TAX-PAYER. Halcombe. January 29.

[The Unemployment Board states that o:i receipt of definite evidence that there is no seasonal work offering in the Halcombe district provision will be made for eligible men to receive their allocation of relief under Scheme No. 5.]