WITHHELD CAMP ORDER
WAITING FOR VOLUNTEERS. STATEMENT BY MR BROMLEY. “The Opepe camp order is being withheld for a week to see if Palmerston North’s quota of men can be filled voluntarily. If we cannot obtain the necessary labour in this manner we will have to deal with the situation as we have done in every other place that action lias been required.” This statement was made to a “Standard” representative yesterday afternoon by Mr AY. Bromley, a member of the Unemployment Board, prior to his return to Wellington from this centre.
“Where arrangements have been made for a deputation, always limited in numbers, it has been quite usual, if those men are drawn from work, to pay them,” he added in explanation of the Minister’s refusal to accede to one of the requests made to him at the demonstration at the railway station yesterday. “The Unemployment Board,” lie added, “does not make it a practice to pay for time lost by those engaged in a mass demonstration, because it would be accepted as a precedent for similar occasions at every place visited, and the board does not intend to invite that.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 147, 23 May 1934, Page 2
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192WITHHELD CAMP ORDER Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 147, 23 May 1934, Page 2
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