CORRESPONDENCE

Manawatu Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 4405, 16 October 1934, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE

(To The Editor)

Sir, —I desire to ventilate a grievance, on behalf of myself and fellow workers, in your columns. The local Unemployment officer has struck our names off for relief work owing to our having taken work between our allocation days. I desire you, Mr Editor, to help ns, as struggling workers, to enable us to get all the work we can between our allocation days as the Government does not give us maintenance. Our relief work pay is £1 per week for three weeks, and for the stand down week, 10/-. I feel that we have been wrongfully put off because of the meagre pittance we get in cutting -wood to keep our homes. We have the grit to make up the rest to provide food for our families. Hoping this letter may be the meass of reinstating: us in relief work. Yours, etc. NOT TO BE PENALISED. [The local Certifying Officer states that the' men concerned in the above are engaged on a contract averaging over £2 per week of four days. The contract is likely to last at least another four weeks and under the circumstances the men are not legally entitled to relief. —Ed. H.]