UNEMPLOYED RELIEF

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21414, 11 February 1933, Page 15

UNEMPLOYED RELIEF

COUNTRY ALLOCATIONS DISSATISFACTION IN NVAIKATO [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON. Friday A letter was received from tho Unemployment Board by tho Waikato Hospital Board yesterday advising that relief workers in Hamilton were receiving similar treatment in respect to the measure of relief as was given in other inland towns. Mr. G. Smith, Huntly, said it was grossly unfair that the Unemployment Board should differentiate between the cities and other centres. Mr. Smith added that country relief workers not only received a lower relief wage than city workers, but they had to suffer heavy cuts i,n allocation. Mr. H. A. Bell, Cambridge, said the relief workers at Cambridge were receiving hopelessly inadequate wages and were constantly in need of clinritablo aid. The chairman, Mr. J. .1, Ryburn, suggested that the hoard should press for fundamental reforms in the unemployment relief system. FITNESS FOR WORK MEN IN HUNTLY CAMP k . [from otra own correspondent] HAMILTON, Friday A report was received by the Waikato Hospital Board yesterday from the medical superintendent, Dr. M. M. Hockin, that, following a protest from single men in camp that some of them were unfit for work, Dr. J. McMiken had examined 43 men at. a camp at Huntly and had found that the majority were perfectly fit for work.