RELIEF WORK.
Sir,—Since the unemployment levy started a vast sum lias been spent. Very little of anything useful and lasting has been achieved in the spending, and unemployment is worse than ever. I honestly believe that half-a-dozen level-headed farmers would handle the question with better results. I maintain that relief work is merely the "thin end of the wedge," the next stage being the levy, and the* grand finale, the straight dole. We are heading fast for this last dread stage, in spite of having Britain as an example of what the dole means. Nobody objects to gratuitous payments in necessitous cases, such as old age or infirmity, or other special circumstances, but seeing that human nature is what it is, I claim that the dole means ruin. I trust and hope, therefore, that those in charge of levy funds will resist doggedly anything that tends to encourage pure laziness Cockatoo.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20987, 25 September 1931, Page 12
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