INTIMATE QUESTIONS
RELIEF WORKERS OBJECT
MAY DECLINE TO ANSWER
Up to the present time every applicant for relief work has had to; fill in a-form issued by ( the Unemployment Board through the various bureaux asking for personal; details and.other,information, concerning past earnings and assets. . This form has now been revised and amplified' so as to provide for further .details which previously had' to be ascertained by bureau officials making personal calls, and it will reduce "to some extent the vast amount of investigation necessary in the past. ;;•",'. ';. Complaints aTe being made: by relief workers' organisations in'various parts of the country that the,questions asked in the new"form are^too searching and intimate, and Tequife a business knowledge which many of the/applicants do not possess.'' - " It was stated today that in a large number of cases the men had signified their intention of declining- to furnish the dotails required,- A meeting of Wellington relief workers isto be held next Monday evening to determine the attitude of the local• men on;this and other matters. , ; '
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 39, 16 February 1933, Page 13
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170INTIMATE QUESTIONS Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 39, 16 February 1933, Page 13
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