NEW RELIEF RATES
REPLY TO PEOTEST
MR. SAVAGE'S REMARKS
Replying on Saturday to a protest made in Dunedin by the Council o£ Working Women against the inadequacy of the new rates of relief pay and sustenance, the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) remarked on the similarity of this protest to those made at Auckland and Gisborne.
"The people who want to help Labour should give the Government a chance to put its programme into operation," said Mr. Savage. "These things cost money, and before the Government has made financial provision it would be madness to start paying out on the lines suggested in these resolutions. They come from the same organisation, and there is a striking likeness in all of them. The Government's objective is not to. develop a system under which people will be compelled to exist on sustenance, but to provide avenues of employment that will make them free once .again and give them an opportunity of striking out for themselves. We realise that until worthwhile employment is made available we have to do our very best in the way of sustenance, and the people can rely on us to do that. Unless the foundation is truly laid nothing but disaster can be the result. We are laying that foundation as fast as we can."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 104, 4 May 1936, Page 8
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