VALUE OF UNEMPLOYED.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12454, 21 September 1933, Page 2

VALUE OF UNEMPLOYED.

ELTHAM SUGGESTION.

Electric Telegraph—Tress Association ELI HAM, September 19. A suggestion that the Unemployment Board should make available to the um mployed disused Public Works hutments was commended by Mr W. H. Woodward, S.M., to-day, arising out of a tenancy possession case.

Mr J L. Weir, solicitor for the landlord, said that many relief workers could not afford to pay rent out of their slender earnings, and did not, know which -way to turn for a roof over their heads should they be dispostsessed. Added to this was the fact that there was an acute shortage of houses in Eltham. He suggested that the Public Works Department should shift to Eltham a number of hutments formerly used by workers on the Stratford main trunk railway and rent them at a small sum to the unemployed.

In endorsing the suggestion, the magistrate asked a leading land agent who was in court to reduce the matter to wi'iting so that he (the magistrate) could make representations in the proper quarter It was mentioned in court that hi many other llistricts there must be a large number of these hutments which could be placed at the disposal of the unemployed.