WORK ON ANZAC DAY
POSITION OF PROSPECTORS PRIME MINISTER'S REPLY , [BY TELEGRAFQ —OWN CORRESPONDENT] THAMES, Friday The president of the Thames Returned Soldiers' Association, Mr. T. McCarroll, to-day received the following telegram from the Prime Minister in reply to the protest concerning miners' pay being stopped unless they worked on Anzac Day:— " I am advised that compliance with your request would in fairness necessitate payment to all relief workers for Anzac Day, irrespective of whether or not they would ordinarily be standing down on that day, or of any special conditions governing their employment, and, with the funds at its disposal, it is regretted that the Unemployment Board could not possibly sanction such payment. It must be recognised that men on mining are on a diflorent footing from ordinary relief workers." This morning, the Mayor, Mr. S. Ensor, got into telephonic communication with Mr. G. C. Godfrey, commissioner of unemployment, and subsequently received the following telegram:—" The circular regarding An/.ac Day was not intended to exclude miners engaged in mines or prospecting who would ordinarily have been working on that day." A telegram of protest lias been sent by the Thames Miners' Union.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19330422.2.106
Bibliographic details
New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21473, 22 April 1933, Page 12
Word Count
193WORK ON ANZAC DAY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21473, 22 April 1933, Page 12
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the New Zealand Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence . This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Auckland Libraries and NZME.