"CHESSMEN ON A BOARD"
"Cabinet Ministers have called this a humanitarian Government," said Mr. W. L. Barker, National candidate for Wellington East, at Worser Bay last night. "This is what your humanitarian Government is like: With my own eyes I have seen letters written by the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage and the Hon. Robert Semple in answer to a poor woman who wrote asking for £8 13s from the Government to bury her dead child, a boy of two years and nine months killed on the Hutt Road recently! They were letters of cold, blank, inhuman refusal. They refused her the money to bury her child because they said the Audit Department would not sanction it. She had to obtain the money by gifts of charity. In the State where the politician and the bureaucrat rule supreme there are no considerations of humanitarian motives. Those who go cap in hand to the Ministers of the Government will meet only cold, blank refusal. People will be treated like chessmen on a board."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 79, 30 September 1938, Page 16
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