MEN FROM WELLINGTON

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3646, 15 February 1932, Page 5

MEN FROM WELLINGTON

WORK NEAR AUCKLAND ATTITUDE OF BOARD fPor Press Association). Auckland, February 13. A protest, against the transfer of 200 siiLglo unemployed men from Wellington to a single men’s camp at Aka Aka,, where drainage improvement works arc to be carried out for the benefit of local farmers, has been made to the .Minister in Charge of Unemployment (the Right Hon. J. G. Coates) by the Mayors of Auckland, Mount. Eden. and Mount Albert. Tins attitude of the Unemployment Board is indicated by the following reply received from the. Minister: — “T. can assure you that the Government and the T.ncmployiiient Board are fully alive to the difficulties in, Auckland, and appreciate the co-operation of the local bodies in helping to cope with the position. We are doing, our utmost within the limit of the funds now available to assist, (and in particu** hopie to ;givo further opportunties for mon to obtain employment outside of the city. You will agree we must have first regard to tile possibilities of obtaining suitable work, and to this end it- may be necessary to move men across provincial boundaries. The Aka Aka drainage work is being undertaken by a single men’s camp, and Auckland city had few single men available at the time. ’