RELIEF ALLOCATIONS
Deputation’s Request PREMIER’S PROMISE By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, March 16. A deputation from the Municipal Conference to inquire into the reasons for disparities in relief fund allocations as between different districts, waited on the Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, the Hon. J. Bitchener, and the deputy chairman of the Unemployment Board, Mr. J. 8. Jessep. Mr. Forbes promised to look into the position, but expressed the opinion that with limited funds and in particularly difficult circumstances disparities were bound to arise. Introducing the deputation, Mr. D. G. Sullivan, M.P., said that the conference wished it to be clearly understood that it did not wish that allocations for smallej centres to be brought up at the expanse of lover allocations for larger towns
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 80, 16 March 1934, Page 5
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