NEEDY AT HAWERA
PUBLIC HEART STIRRED
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
HAWEEA, This Day
A meeting of about 400 town and country residents was held last night to devise means of providing subsistence for the unemployed until the Government resumes relief measures. Over £100 was subscribed, and numerous offers of regular supplies of provisions were received, including meat and vegetables from farmers for the unemployed of Hawera, who with their wives and children total over SOO needy persons.
■The meeting carried a resolution urging the Government to place all old peoplo on pension, thus relieving the labour market, the money to be found by a 3d in the pound tax on all wages, also that two weeks' holiday for workers be made compulsory;
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 142, 18 June 1931, Page 12
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121NEEDY AT HAWERA Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 142, 18 June 1931, Page 12
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