UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEMS
PROTEST AGAINST SUSTENANCE POLICY (Pro Ukitku Press Association] WELLINGTON, January 29. Local members of Parliament, representatives of unions, and the Lev. W. S. Rollings waited on the Minister of Employment (Mr A. Hamilton) to-day to submit a motion of pi'otest carried at a public meeting recently against the board’s sustenance policy. Mr Rollings said that many children at primary schools were suffering mentally and physically through lack of nourishment brought about by repeated cuts in sustenance payments. In reply the Minister said that since the new sustenance rates had been announced men under fifty years of age had asked if they could come into the scheme, but the rates were not meant to .apply to able-bodied men. The board had ben trying to safeguard its funds against the winter requirements.
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Evening Star, Issue 21632, 30 January 1934, Page 13
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132UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEMS Evening Star, Issue 21632, 30 January 1934, Page 13
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