RELIEF WORKERS' GRIEVANCE

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 109, 10 May 1934, Page 13

RELIEF WORKERS' GRIEVANCE

About fifty Johnsonvillo relief workers, dissatisfied with their treatment on. the matter of pay for wet weather, made their way to Parliament Buildings during tho lunch hour today and requested ,an. interview with Labour" members of Parliament. Mr. K. McKocn, M.P. for Wellington South, interviewed two of the men, and after listening to their- grievances arranged for representatives of tho workers to interview tlioEnginecr-in-Chief of the Public Works Department (Mr. C. J. McKcnzie) this afternoon.' On receiving an assurance that they would have :i chance of stating their case in the proper quarter, tho men dispersed.

Mr. Louis E. Ward's collection- of old prints and photographs, which he has presented to' the Wellington Early Settlers' and Historical Association, is to bo exhibited in the Dominion Museum for a week or two. The exhibition will be extended so that any or the schoolteachers, who wish to do so may take- their classes to inspect tho collection on the reassembling of tho schools after tho holidays.

Ramsey Wilson and Co', will sell household i'urjiiture and effects on the premises, 73 Weld Street, Wadestown, at 1.30 P.m. .tomorrow; On Saturday, May l\ they will sell the furniture and contents ? £ _a residence, Xo. 8 Footscray Avenue loft Abel Smith Street),