RELIEF WORK
APPEAL EOF CHINESE. ’ I *fA r lYinorM AUCKLAND, -Tan. in. Attention was drawn to-day by one of iho loaders of the Chinese community in Auckland, Afr. Andrew Chong, to the plight of the unemployed Chinese. TTe said that throughout New Zealand the C'hvt-r-sr- had paid thousands of pounds to the unemployment fund, yet as far r,s lie could ascertain not one Chinese had been given relief work or relief ratious.
The situation, he said, became acme last April, when, owing to the low returns from the market garden business, many men were thrown or their own resources. 1 hey were unable to obtain employment with Europeans and they had been informed by the Labor Department that they wen- nor eligible for work or sustenance. Yet the Chinese in w-ok continued in pay both the levy and the tax. He estimated that ihej-e were about 150 Chinese in Auckland practically destitute.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11830, 11 January 1933, Page 3
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