SUSTENANCE “CUT"

Northern Advocate, 15 September 1932, Page 5

SUSTENANCE “CUT"

DEPUTATION TO MINISTER, (Per Press Association. —Conyrlght.) WELLINGTON, This Day. A request that the 50 per cent, cut in sustenance payment?.', made to men for whom no work was available, should be .immediately restored, was made to the aeting-Minister of Employment, the Hon. A. Hamilton, today by a large deputation representing, the relief workers in Wellington. The Minister stressed the desirability of the men being provided with -work, instead of with mere sustenance, and said that ho would be prepared to take up the matter with the Unemployment Board and the Wellington City Council. He added that the number was growing, as more men were being put off their jobs than were being put on. Mr. Campbell later contended that the Minister had stated that a farmer allowed 15s to keep men in “tucker:”

Mr. Hamilton: “I do not think I said that. I may have said the amount of ‘tucker’ a man received was estimated at 15s. ’’ Mr. Campbell: “Well, w r e will accept it that . w-ay. You estimate that it costs 15s to keep a man in ‘tucker’ on a farm, and yet single men in town are receiving 7s fid a week. It appears there is one rule for the farmers and another for the town.” Mr. Hamilton said there was plenty of w-ork in the country, for single men, and'asked wiiat wa« wrong with the camps. .

Mr. Campbell said the camps had never been n success since thev started.