RELIEF WORK.
Sir —Would you answer this ■ poin<. with 'reference to unemployment work. 1 am a married man with wue and four children and allowed to work Scheme 5 two weeks with three da. s a week and one week with foul dajs in month. This cannot keep me in house rent and food. Could I go in spare days to chop firewood to pay o fl m y ac ™J ts '
rEvery encouragement is given by the Labour Department to relief workers to supplement their earnings in the v* } correspondent suggests, in the hope that they may thus find work of a. more pei manent 'character than that Provided under No. 5 scheme. When more than 14 davs' consecutive work has been o>tained, however, the worker is not entitled to accept relief work during the following week. —Editor Herald.]
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 21029, 13 November 1931, Page 12
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