UNEMPLOYMENT

Grey River Argus, 13 June 1935, Page 5

UNEMPLOYMENT

AT WELLINGTON. WELLINGTON- June 11. Commenting to-day upon a statement made by the members of the executive of the inter-church committee' which hitherto have acted in the dis’riimLion of additional lelitf from tec Mt«. • ’s Fund, the Mayer, Mr. T. C. \. II Aon, remarked that the wording of die statement, taken in conjunction with the- heading given it in one new p.’per had, he was afraid, created a misunderstanding that the need of further assistance had now largely passed, and. if it had created that impression, might seriously embarrass those still working to help people in need of assistance in the city. “Nothing could be further from a true description of the situation than the statement that the emergency has passed,” said Air. Hislop. “lit has not passed. There are some 5000 men >4ill dependent on unemployment pay either on relief or sustenance. The great majority of these are married men with families. The condition of most of the unemployed is worse than It was three or four years ago,, for the reason, apparent to all who are familiar with the position, that relief pay has never allowed of more than the barest sustenance.

“Where people three or four years ago had some clothing and could subsist on the bare relief money to-day this clothing is worn out, their bedding and the hundred and one things in the home are gone or sadly deteriorated, and only bare food-, .and of this not much, is procurable on relief pay. The emergency -has not passed In most it is greater.