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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 December 1924, Page 15

“Vie have enough problems to solve in connection with our relief work in our large hospital district without hawing to listen to able-bodied men in good health who come to us and say they cannot get work,” said the chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board, when speaking of the very large number of men who had come’to the board for relief because, they said, they could not get work, while ‘the farmers and producers of the- country were crying out because of the scarcity of labour. It was quite true that in the country labour was very scarce, and any man willing to w ork would soon get’ something to do. One rather striking and not very creditable thing, went on the chairman, was that where husbands were separated from their wives the wives often made good and supported themselves and even saved enough to get a little home together which they could call their own, while the husband never made any real effort to get into the country where work was Offering, and then came and asked for help.—New Zealand Herald.