RELIEF WORKERS’ RENI.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 76, 11 March 1933, Page 8

RELIEF WORKERS’ RENI.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —In answer to “Relief Worker’s’’ letter in to-night’s “Tribune,” I can onlv endorse all he has said What 1 want to know is this —is there any Magistrate in God’s own country who, when a relief worker is getting evicted from his home, can honestly say, “1 can do nothing.” No, not one. To give an instance, our present Magistrate, Mr Mowlein, refused to make an order in a couple of cases just recently heard. All he could hay was, “I can't make an order; see me in a month.” Well, Sir. what 1 really want to impress upon all Magistrates throughout the country is, how can we payrent ? For myself, I have a wife and four children. I get no paper; just have to borrow one or go to the library. Last week my wife went out to get three pairs of socks for the wee mites and a hit of stuff for two dresses for them. The lot came to 8/3. The bread runs into about 5/- per week. A bit of meat, 1/6, did us the week. Two pounds of butter 2/-. I have my own potatoes, very small on account of the dry weather we have had; cabbages nil. Parasites they call the white butterfly—must have been more hungry than myself.—Yours etc., L.F.G. Hastings, 10/3/33.