Relief Work

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 81, 17 March 1934, Page 8

Relief Work

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Would you grant me a short space of your valued column to state the case of a man in Hastings whom we consider to be unfairly treated by the local unemployment office? This man has been refused any relief work, and is thrown on the charity of the public or Hospital Board. Ho is a man who is not fit for heavy or medium work, and hi s eyesight is rapidly fading; in fact, one eye is completely sightless, and the other is nearly as bad. How is this man going to support his wife and child ? Surely, Sir, this man has the right to Jive. And what about his family? Are they to starve, or to live on the charity of the already over-burdened? This man to my knowledge has been on relief for about three years, so you c»n judge that his savings out of his meagre, wages won’t keep him or his familyNow, supposing that he is not a good toiler (what blind man could b»?), would his thoughts not be alwaya on his affliction and what wa» to become of his wife and family? Why does the Unemployment Board not consider these things when they are weighing a man’s good and bad points? So Sir I think that in this case the nublie should be the judges—l am, et® , E. KELLY, Secretary N.M.W.M Hastings, 17/3/34.