LUXURY OF THE TOWNS

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2401, 10 April 1931, Page 7

LUXURY OF THE TOWNS

LOW Kit IL\Y FOR UNEMPLOYED POSITION OF I' AKM ER'S SOX Alenfon of the alteration in the working of the I ncinploy mont Act was made at the meeting of the Stmtford Committee whereby the rate of pay would he 9.s a day for Iwo ' lays for s'nglo men, 12s (id a day for tli rof'i. d : *,v.,.liwjn \Ulb one dope mient, nr ;v single*' man with dependents, and 12s (id a May for four days for married man with two or more dependents. This will come into force when the Luomployment Board lias promulgated its new scheme after an interval of a fortnight from next Saturday. I >ERTIX KNT QUESTION “Why should fanners' sons he deprived of this money when men living in tile luxury of the town ran get it!-"*’ asked Mr L. Bunn, of Tututawa. Mr P. Thomson: What luxury? The* townspeople have to pay for it. Mr Bunn : If the man ho get is no good to him, wliat is* ho to do? 'llie sheep farmer has not made li s store hilt oiit of his place*. Many Business men in town have no idea of tne position of the fanner. The mail in town is drawing good money and the farmer’s son s getting a small wage or perhaps nothing. Mr Thomson. The farmer’s soil looks tu he place on the farm hy his father.