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UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF AUCKLAND FARMER’S VIEWS (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Tlio Auckland Farmers’ Union executive, at a special meeting to-day, refused to nominate anyone as a member of the Unemployment Board, the opinion being expressed l that no good purpose coilld be served by the nomination, as the unioii had protested against regarding unemployment as permanent, and also against setting up an organisation to create and administer a- permanent fund of £1,000,000 a year by additional taxation. Money for relief should lie obtained from the consolidated fund, and if extra, taxation wns necessary then by a tax on luxuries. All relief work should be contract or piecework at a rate less than standard wage, With a distinction between married and single men.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17408, 5 November 1930, Page 8
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125SYSTEM OPPOSED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17408, 5 November 1930, Page 8
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