Refuse to Punish Starving For Labour’s Errors
CANTERBURY FARMERS AND CITY COUNCIL WAGES CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. Condemning the proposal of the Labour majority of the City Council to rescind the resolution by which the standard relief wages paid by the council were reduced from 15/4 a day, and stating that the sympathies of country people would thereby be alienated, representatives of the Canterbury A. and P. Association, the Sheepowners’ Union and the North Canterbury Farmers’ L r nion decided in conference today not to proceed with the scheme they had previously adopted for the collection of produce from farmers in the country to relieve distress among the unemployed. At a subsequent meeting, the executive of the Fanners’ Union declined to ratify this decision. Members strongly attacked the Labour proposal to restore wages to .15/4, but they were swayed by the argument that the relief of starving people was a matter ot common humanity not to be decided by municipal politics.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HC19310528.2.20
Bibliographic details
Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 May 1931, Page 3
Word Count
160Refuse to Punish Starving For Labour’s Errors Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 May 1931, Page 3
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Horowhenua Chronicle. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence . This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.