NAPIER REFUGEES
IMPORTANCE STRESSED
COMPULSION POSSIBLE
. (By Telegraph.—-Press Association.) , ' ' , . NAPIEB, This .Day. • "I..am afraid that legislative compulsion will ; be necessary .to complete the job," said the- Commissioner, Mr. J.S. Barton, S.M., in stressing at last night's meeting of the Napier City Council the importance of all citizens who were refugees returning, to Napier immediately. : ■. ' "It is a crying shame . that people | are staying away as they are doing,'.' Mr..Barton added. "J- do not.say that everyone is doing this sort of thing, but there are some cases. If-a man getting his wages is keeping his wife and family away living-on relief funds he will receive no x3re^erential:paymcnK Every Napier citizen living in Wellington or other place who eats up &1 worth of food eats. up.a sum that mightgo toward the restoration of this j City." , .■'.:• ; ,■■;■ .: ... ...-■ : ■;,'.'■',■".■ ' '
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 70, 24 March 1931, Page 10
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134NAPIER REFUGEES Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 70, 24 March 1931, Page 10
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