RELIEF WORKERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21141, 26 March 1932, Page 11

RELIEF WORKERS.

GROWING OF VEGETABLES. MOVEMENT ENCOURAGED. An assurance that relief workers who grow their own vegetables need have no fear that their food allowances will bo cut down was given by Mr. J. I. Goldsmith, chairman, at a meeting of tha Wellington Citizens' Unemployment Committee. Tho question was raised by Mr. F. D. Cornwell, who said that a number of the unemployed seemed to be under tho impression that they would bo penalised in some way if they grew their own vegetables. Tho Chairman: That is not correct. Every man is expected by tho Unemployment Board to grow his own vegetables, on his own plot if ho has one and 011 a plot provided if ho has not. Mr. Cornwell: Have you plots for every man on relief work ? Tho Chairman: We have any amount of plots. Only about 400 want plots. All tho others have suitable ground at their homes. In reply to a recommendation of tho committee that prizes should be offerud for tho best-kept gardens by relief workers, the Commissioner of Unemployment wroto stating that the legislation did not allow the board's funds to be so expended, but that the suggestion would be kept in mind.