UNEMPLOYED LOAFING?
FARMER’S ALLEGATIONS. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, September 20. Allegations that forty relief workers on a job at Manurewa, were deliberately loafing, were made by a farmer to the Manukau County Council, to-day. The farmer, Arthur Roberts, said that already £6OO had been paid out. He considered the whole job should not cost more than .£2OO, but at the rate of work being done, it would cost another £JSOO, making £ 21(h). He asseited it was evident there was an organised movement among a large number of men to loaf and to make those who wanted to work do likewise also. There had been deliberate destruction of slashers and grubbers. He suggested that the Council select eight or ten men, and remove the others.
The Chairman of the Council pointed out that all the complainant had to pay was £5O. Many of the men were skilled tradesmen, but knew nothing of farm work, and they could not work like those accustomed to farm conditions. If they were not working they would have to be kept It was decided that the allegation? be investigated.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 September 1932, Page 5
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