UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22256, 8 May 1934, Page 8

UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF

TO TEE EDITOR Sir, —I quite agree with a correspondent in Friday’s issue of the Daily Times. 1 do not know how the relief workers manage to live on their meagre pittance. There is & good deal of suffering which does not come under the notice of the public and I am pretty certain that the wages which the relief man gets are not enough to buy sufficient milk, butter, etc., for their families. Our medical men will tell you that these two foods are an absolute necessity to the human body. We see the effects of lack of milk in ricketts, consumption, etc., the latter a cruel slayer of our race. There is, and must be, a way out of all this trouble. Immediately the people lost their purchasing power unemployment began, and those who are now being deprived of their nourishment will no doubt put the country to a greater expense in the building of sanatonums. etc. Something should be done to prevent all this trouble. New Zealand could, under better conditions, become the healthiest race of people in the world, but what can be thought of a country and its people who let a large majority lack food?—I am, etc., A Watcher. Oamaru, -May 7.