RELIEF WORKERS
RATIONS SCHEME. COMPLAINT TO MINISTER. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, June 14. Further complaint of the non-ad-ministration of the rations scheme by the unemployed relief authorities was made to the Minister of Employment, the Right Hon. J. G. Coates, to-day by a “united front” of the unemployed relief workers’ organization, the deputation claiming to represent the majority of the relief jobs in the city. Replying to the deputation Mr Coates said emphatically that his answer to the declaration that relief workers were receiving less now than under the old scheme was that the expenditure on rations alone had increased by nearly £500,000 a year under the new scheme. The claims made on hospital boards previously nowhere approached the sum he mentioned. In saying that, he was taking into consideration the increased number of unemployed. The Minister said that only by making close investigations into applications for relief could he satisfy the people who were providing the money that more was required or that the amount being given was insufficient.
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Southland Times, Issue 21729, 15 June 1932, Page 8
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171RELIEF WORKERS Southland Times, Issue 21729, 15 June 1932, Page 8
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