RELIEF WORKERS' PAY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21546, 18 July 1933, Page 13

RELIEF WORKERS' PAY

Sir, —I am in a camp, but I do not agree with much that has been written about the low levol of the wages paid in camps. But I do think that in the forestry camps the pay for single men is too low. It might reasonably be raised to 16s or 17s per week, and this would have the desired effect of attracting men who otherwise would prefer to loaf in town. Again, in some of the country towns there are families of four people living on 18s per week. If tho Government cannot afford to pay more, let them give permission for a few more race meetings or even a national lottery. The public, when they criticise the poor relief workers, should remember there is much useful work they are doing, which would never have been looked at if standard wages had to be paid. Another suggestion is the holding of an exhibition in Auckland. The last, held 20 years ago, was a success—that in Dunedin, held lately, was another success. Campite.