RELIEF PLAN ATTACKED
UNSETTLING EFFECT ON BOYS MILL-OWNER’S OPINION Press Association PALMERSTON NORTH, Today. The statement that the latest relief scheme for the absorption of the unemployed had an unsettling effect on boys following: definite vocations and was prejudicial to those learning trades has been made by a mill-owner ol Palmerston North. “Boys of 17, who have obviously not reached their full earning capacity, are obtaining relief work at the men’s rate of pay,” lie said. “Light left me last week. - ' It was a dotible tax on industry while the farmers were calling out for labour. It was stated the youths made a declaration of unemployment and apparently no effective steps were taken to verify the facts or to ascertain when they were discharged. Not only were the fundamental principles of the reli€“f scheme being defeated, but tho conditions had an unsettling effect on other youths engaged in permanent vocations.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 811, 4 November 1929, Page 11
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150RELIEF PLAN ATTACKED Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 811, 4 November 1929, Page 11
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