UNEMPLOYMENT BOARD
CRITrCISM AT OAMARU HOSPITAL BOARD'S PROTEST [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] OAMARU, Tuesday A further vigorous protest against the action of the Unemployment Board, in reducing relief to the unemployed by placing them on sustenance at Oamaru, was made by the Waitaki Hospital Board to-day, when the protest of the Oamaru Borough Council to the Minister was endorsed. The chairman, Mr. W. Forrester, said that at one time he supported the Unemployment Board, but he now had grave doubts as to its policy. The Oamaru Unemployment Committee, after meeting weekly for five years, had ;been suspended as it had reached a stage when representations to the board and references to cases of injustice were - ignored. It could not get replies to letters and the committee was being made a tool of and a bulfer between the board and the unemployed. If he had had the wording of the protest to the Minister he would have made it much stronger.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22139, 19 June 1935, Page 12
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