THE RAILWAY SERVICE
TO THE EDITOR. Sib, —May I confirm what “ Lest We Forget” says in to-day’s paper with regard to the paying-off of casual railway workers? It is quite true that returned soldiers are being paid off. My brother, who went with the Main Body and came back after the war was over, was for a number of years on the railway, and he has been paid off. My husband, who: is also unemployed, was at the war, for four years and a-half. I have five children, and I asked for boots for them from the relief depot, but as it was found out that I was in debt nowhere I could not get anything. If I did not go out washing and" doing other work, which brings in a few shillings, I am afraid 1 would in debt. Let me state it is not a. Dunedin relief depot that refused me relief.-—I am, etc.,
Mother of Five,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21430, 3 September 1931, Page 6
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159THE RAILWAY SERVICE Otago Daily Times, Issue 21430, 3 September 1931, Page 6
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