UNEMPLOYMENT
GIFT OF MEAT.
(Special to "Star.")
CHRISTCHURCH, February 25.
His coat off, shirt sleeves rolled up, with a tomahawk clasped firmly in the right hand, Mr E. G. Queree, Government unemployment officer, stood in a little room at the Trades Hall to(i !>, cutting up a number of carcases of sheep, which had been donated for the relief of deserving cases by a city firm.
“A clerk turned butcher,” observed Mr Queree, with a smile, when an intruder on the quest for news entered the little room this morning. “Whose the fairy godmother?” he asked, but Mr Queree said he wasn’t allowed to divulge .the name of the donor of the meat. That was one condition on which it had been given. “There’s enough here for seventeen families,” he said. “Who’re going to be the lucky ones?”
“We’re leaving that to Mr Queree’s judgment,” said Mr 11. Morrall, who was assisting to wrap up the meat. “Yes, I know the deserving cases,” Mr Queree declared. “I know them from the particulars supplied when the men registered. I will give them a ticket and send them around to the Trades Hall, each to collect a parcel.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 February 1927, Page 2
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