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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 December 1934, Page 8

There is a disappointed man living at Tomahawk, Otago, states the “Otago Daily Times.” After spending six months of the present year in a sanatorium, he returned home recently and took up relief work, from which he has received wages on two occasions up to the present time. What with ill health and being on relief work, he has been finding it extremely difficult to support his family, and he was consequently very pleased to learn recently that he was to receive money “for Christmas cheer” from art union funds per medium of the Peninsula County Council. Tho smile faded from his face, however, when he received his Christmas cheer; it amounted to sixpence. The letter of protest which he immediately sat down to write was received at a meeting of the Peninsula County Council, when it was explained that under the system of distribution decided on in connection with the art union funds his allocation had come to the sum mentioned. Members agreed that the amount of Christmas cheer the man could provide for his family with sixpence was likely to be very harmless, and it was decided, as his was a necessitous case, to increase the amount to £l.