TRAMPING FOR FOOD
SYSTEM IN AUSTRALIA. SPECTACLE ON COUNTRY ROADS A feature of the unemployment Situation in Australia, said Professor H. R. Kirk, of Victoria College, who returned to Wellington on the Makura ' this week from a visit' to the Commonwealth, was the number of men one saw tramping about m the country districts. It was done by lurge numbers, systematically, the explanation lying in the fact that men could draw rations if .they could prove thev bad walked'. 41 miles, during the week m. search, or Numbers of men might work foi a day or two at the beginning of the week and then carry through conscientiously their 40 miles’ tramp. Orders on a store for rations could he obtained then, on application to the police. This systematic tramping was a very noticeable feature on rural roads. . "
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11453, 2 March 1931, Page 6
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