TRAMPING FOR FOOD
SYSTEM IN AUSTRALIA. / - ' - - • ■ " ■ ;F SPECTACLE ON COUNTRY ROADS, A feature of the unemployment situation in Australia, said Professor H. B. Kirk, of Victoria College,, who returned on the Makura to Wellington on Monday from a visit to the Commonwealth, was the number of men one saw tramping about in the country districts. It was done by large numbers, systematically, the explanation lying in the fact that men could draw rations if they could prove that they had walked 40 miles during the week in search of work. Numbers of men might work for a day or tw.o at the beginning of the week and then carry through conscientiously their 40 miles’ tramp. Orders on a store could be obtained then, on application to the police. This systematic tramping was a very noticeable feature ou rural roads. . 1
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 February 1931, Page 10
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