MILIERTON UNEMPLOYED

Evening Star, Issue 21284, 13 December 1932, Page 9

MILIERTON UNEMPLOYED

DEPUTATION SEEKS RELIEF [Pie United Press Association.] WESTPORT December 12. A deputation. of forty-three unemployed men from Millerton came into town to-day and interviewed the deputychairman of the Duller Hospital Board (Mr Fox), in the absence of the chairman, Hon. W. H. MTntyre, M.L.C., who is at Nelson. . They emphasised their dire necessity in view of the reductions in the unemployed rates of pay. The deputation also waited on the Leader of the Labour Party (Mr H. E. Holland), who got in touch with the Acting Minister of Emplpyment (Hon. A. Hamilton) and ascertained from him that a meeting of the Cabinet was being held to-night, and that the decision would be made known in the morning.

In the meantime the members of the deputation are waiting in. town, the Hospital Board having . given orders that they should be provided witji tea, bed, and breakfast. A member of ‘the deputation stated that, failing some form of relief, the women would come and join them in their protest. They were worse off at Millerton than .the unemployed elsewhere, as they had no gardens or means of supplementing their earnings, and there was no fund from which assistance could be given, such as the mayors’ funds in the cities.