HIKURANGI’S UNEMPLOYED.
(To the Editor.)' Sir, —For several weeks I have read ■with interest that local bodies are instituting’ some means to help the unemployed in their locality. Why ha.s this never occurred to our townspeople at Hikurangi? 1 am not aware of tho exact number of unemployed, but have been told it is about thirty. lam awmre of mothers who have braved the storm (without, outward show), undergoing great distress and agony, and more so now that the No. a Scheme is again to end. Now, local ■workers who are fortunate to be in employment, why not work wholeheartedly and get together a committee? If every worker, whatever h/s work may be, gave sixpence a week, no doubt it would provide, towards £1 a week to each unemployed, thus relieving tho shop-keep-ers, or whoever are standing by them, and also showing our unemployed, who have been our local men for years, that they have the sympathy of the workers. , Is there anyone ready to look into the matter and find that my words are time I am, etc., SYMPATHETIC ONE.
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Northern Advocate, 13 June 1931, Page 3
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