PALMERSTON UNEMPLOYED
TO THE EDITOR. Sib, —A well-to-do farmer in the Palmerston district applied a few months ago for “ extra labour ” in the form of a boy. He got his “extra labour” and two days afterwards dismissed the boy who, bad previously been employed in the ordinary way. Since then he has simply “ carried on,” the local authorities paying a considerable part of his only boy’s wages. Cases such as these should be broadcast at once, and I think the public will agree with me that the facts I have stated call for an explanation from the farmer concerned and from our Mayor as chairman of the Unemployment Committee.—l am, etc. Indignant.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21940, 29 April 1933, Page 10
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