RELIEF RATES
REJECTED BY UNEMPLOYED. (Per Press Association.) MASTERTON, June 24. There was a meeting of about one hundred unemployed here to-night, which considered the offer of the Masterton County Council to provide road improvement work at the relief rates of pay. Mr R. D. Wilson (Secretary of the Trades and Labour Council) urged the men to accept the County offer. On a separate vote being taken, the married men rejected the acceptance of 12/- per day by a small majority, but the single men unanimously rejected the acceptance of work at 9/a day. A further resolution was passed asking the Leader of the Opposition to protest in Parliament against the relief rate of wages.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 June 1927, Page 5
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