A FURTHER PROTEST
RELIEF PAY IN OAMARU
COUNCIL SUPPORTED
(By Telegraph—l'ress Association.) OAMARU, June 18. A further vigorous protest against the action of the Unemployment Board in reducing relief pay to unemployed workers by placing them on sustenance in Oamaru, was made by the Waitaki Hospital Board at its monthly meeting today, when the protest of the Oamaru Borough Council to the Minister was endorsed. The chairman, Mr. W. Forrester, said at one time he took the.part of the Unemployment Board, but .iibw he had grave doubts. The Oamaru unemployment committee, after meeting every Monday for five years, had been suspended as they had reached a stage when representations to the board and injustices pointed out were taken no notice of. They could not get replies to letters, and the committee was being made a tool of and a buffer between the board and the unemployed men. If he had had the wording of the protest to the Minister he would have made it much stronger.. ■.: .<.-■ • -1
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 143, 19 June 1935, Page 14
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167A FURTHER PROTEST Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 143, 19 June 1935, Page 14
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