STRANDED IN ROTORUA
RELIEF WORKERS' PLIGHT
FORESTRY JOBS ABANDONED NO assistance from board [by telegraph—own correspondent] ROTORUA, Monday A telegram was received this evening from the acting-Minister of Employment, the Hon. A. Hamilton, by Mr. C. H. Clinkard, M.P., in connection with the recommendations for the relief vvorkeis from the Kaingaroa Plains. Mr. Hamilton stated that these men were employed by the Forestry Department, and the Unemployment Board found the money to pay the men relief As the men left their employment, they broke contract with the Forestry Department, and the board had no authority to supply money to pay expenses in helping the men to return to their homes.
Ten of the 36 men concerned have returned to their homes, and the remainder are stranded in tho town and are without means. The Rotorua Relief Workers' Association has helped to secure food and lodging for the men up to the present, but their position is becoming serious. Representations were made to the actingMinister of Employment for assistance so that the men could return to the places from which they came.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21274, 30 August 1932, Page 10
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