RELIEF CAMPS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11952, 24 May 1933, Page 5

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FIRST DR AFT It OF MARRIED MEN. TO LEAvfc CHRISTCHURCH SHORTLY. (IJrcss. Association) CHRISTCHURCH, May 23. The Labor Department lioro will shortly send the first batch of 'unemployed married men to a now camp established at Ashley Rivcy Tho moil probably will receive 10s a day.

Tbo Department, states that if the mou included in the drafts do not accept t-boy will have to- stand down.

DISTRESS IN CHRISTCIIU.RCH

COMMITTEE OF BUSINESS MEN

TWO GENEROUS DONATIONS

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CHRISTCHURCH, Alay 23

A committee composed mainly of business-- men, which will co-ordinate in all relief of distress in Christchurch was set up this afternoon at a mjeteting called by the Mayor. . It uvas stated, and generally agreed that xi fund of about £50,000 would -have to ho found, which would provide each week about £I2OO. It was announced that a ’leading citizen had agreed to provide £IOO monthly for the next five months, and xi cheque for £IOO was received from a Christclirch firm. Thb meeting carried a resolution calling oil the Unemployment Board to restore to relief workers the amount- of the 10 per cent, cut in wages. BOOT ORDERS TOTAL 20,000 PAIRS. Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 23. Arrangements made in Wellington for the manufacture of working boots for the unemployed arc understood to involve 7500 pairs, tlie bulk of which are to be ready for delivery bv the end of June. By that time, it is understood, orders will Jiave been placed throughout the Dominion to tlie : extent of 20,000 pairs.

Air. Bromley, who is busy arranging for their distribution, stated today that lie had completed interviews with manufacturers in the four main centres and that they had assured him that the orders would mean plumbing the market for raw material and skilled labour. Retailers and others were satisfied that this market was additional to the ordinary market.