RELIEF CAMPS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11767, 14 October 1932, Page 4

RELIEF CAMPS

1' LM .MATE' FAVORS SCHEME h Olt .MAI MIXED MEN DEPRESSION IS EXTENSION OF W(AIt PERIOD' BETTER THAN' USELESS WORK ABOUT CITIES (Press Association.; AUCKLAND. Oct. IX. “It mu.s necessary for many married men, as well as single men, to face camp life and separation from their families during the war. and tlicir families nobly endured it. The present depression is really an extension of the war period, and we have to Crv and face the present disabilities as we faced those during the uar, but without excitement and glamour.” In these words,, Archbishop Aver ill discussed the problem of unemployment camps, .in his charge to the Anglican Diocesan Synod. . “Nobody wislios to separate married men from their families’, said bis (Trace, “but surely it is better, as atemporary expedient, to give ablebodied men. work in the country, and work no man iiocd feel ashamed oi doing, than to invent jobs, for them in and around the city, many of which are of doubtful value, and can nell be left to men who are physically unlit for camp life. Genuine unemployed workers, I feel sure, have no desire for unemployment pay and sustenance without work, and much prefer to retain their sclf-rcspcct. ... “ft is verv easy to criticise the Government for its want of vision m facinw the tragedy of unemployment continued the- Archbishop, “but criticism alone is never very helpful, and probably the Government knows muck more akoufc the problem which it baa to. face Ulan most of its criticisers. It has honestly tiied 0 meet a desperate situation and to make the most and the best of the funds at its disposal.’