UNEMPLOYED MAORIS
RELIEF WORKS FAVOURED WISH TO AVOID SUSTENANCE ' $ It is not desired to extend tho payment of sustenance to Maoris, according to advice from the Minister of Labour, the Hon. IT. T. Armstrong, received by the Pinko County Council, Te Arohn." The council had asked that it be relieved from employing more than eight to 10 men of its present relief gangs. Supervision and transport costs in connection with relief were frequently greater than the completed value of the works. The .Minister said he hud carefully considered the position and was arranging for the majority of the men to be transferred to sustenance. lie asked, however, for the co-operation of the council in retaining the natives in employment, to avoid their being placed on sustenance.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19128, 24 September 1936, Page 15
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126UNEMPLOYED MAORIS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19128, 24 September 1936, Page 15
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