UNEMPLOYED RELIEF WORKS.
to Tin: editor.
Sir, —Regarding a statement of Mr Lewin, our town clerk, at a recent meeting that there were men employed on relief works by the corporation who were not worth 5s per day, I would like to ask him where he got his information from. As a man who has followed hard work all my life, I wish to say that it is a poor man who does not earn tho standard wage on the corporation works. I have had to do in my time with all sorts of contracting, and quite understand what I am talking about, whereas I don’t suppose Mr Lewin has ever swung anything heavier than a fountain pen. Why should not some of the heads have their salaries reduced the same as manual laborers in a time like this to try and make ends meet? If the Prince or the King landed here to-moi;row a vast sum would be spent on useless decoration and ceremony, while at the same time in this city there are little children with hungry stomachs.—l am, etc., Civilised Maori. February 1.
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Evening Star, Issue 19781, 3 February 1928, Page 6
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