PAPATOETOE RELIEF
Sir, —In regard to "Papatoetoe loafers" I think it would be a good idea for the Papatoetoe Town Board to make it a condition before taking action on letters of complaint that tho writer be requested to work for one scorching day alongside the relief worker. One must, in justice, make allowance, for the fact that many of the men have been either professional or business men, and some have been masters practically all of their working lives. To start in middle life to engage in navvying and compete successfully with men who have been accustomed to that class of \\*ork is a physical impossibility. A little less criticism ancf a good deal more charity on the part of the more favoured ones would do no one any harm. Also, a little more economy on the part of the Town Board on expensed that could be postponed aiid a little less parsimony where the bread and butter of women and children is concerned, is long overduo. Another Ratepayer.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21729, 19 February 1934, Page 12
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