IN OTHER CENTRES

Evening Star, Issue 21285, 14 December 1932, Page 12

IN OTHER CENTRES

RELIEF WORKERS’ COMPLAINT. Relief workers downed • tools this morning and waited on a Labour Department’s representative, protesting against the cuts in the relief pay. Spokesmen held that the unemployed in Hamilton would not be responsible for their actions if something was not done to remedy the plight they were in. The men resumed work later. — Hamilton Press Association telegram. WRECKED MISSION SHIP’S CREW. The Melanesian Mission authorities have decided that the whole of the crew of the wrecked vessel be granted full pay up to December 1, and that each man be repatriated to the port at which he signed on at the expense of the mission.’ Some of the men signed on in England. It_ was also resolved that each man be given money to provide himself with necessary clothing.— Auckland Press Association. EDUCATION BOARD’S PROTEST. Sharp criticism was heard at the Auckland Education Board’s meeting to-day of the action of the Director of Education and his first lieutenant in visiting the Native schools in the Bay of Plenty at the present time. The member who raised the question said it was a scandal that money should be spent' in such a way when school children and teachers were all suffering from drastic education economies. The board passed a resolution—“ That the attention of the Minister of Education be drawn to the touring being done by the director and his assistant.’"—Press Association.