SUSTENANCE RATES
(To the Editor.)
Sir, —There has been some correspondence in your columns- relative to single men over fifty years of age in unemployment camps. It has been suggested that these men be transferred from camp and placed on sustenance. What I would like to ask is how are these men supposed to . live on 10s a week, the single men's weekly sustenance allowance? After some months of agitation calling for increased sustenance payments, and that such payments bo raised more in line with the prevailing relief work rates, tho Unemployment Board decided to increase tho rates of sustenance payments to all unemployed men who could not be placed on relief work. They appear, however, to have overlooked the single men, who are still looking for the promised rise.—l am, etc.,
DISGUSTED,
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 92, 16 October 1934, Page 8
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133SUSTENANCE RATES Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 92, 16 October 1934, Page 8
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