UNEMPLOYED ALLOCATIONS

Taranaki Daily News, 21 September 1931, Page 10

UNEMPLOYED ALLOCATIONS

MONEY NOT SUFFICIENT. ELTHAM MEN SUFFERING. “The position is,” said the Mayor of Eltham, Mr. I. J. Bridger, to a Daily News representative, “that unemployment allocations are being reduced each week and th? amounts so allocated are less than those required to meet the work to which the number of unemployed is entitled to under the Act. This places the local authorities and unemployment committees in an invidious position necessitating unfair discrimination in the cutting down of some men below sustenance level. In the Eltham district some men are down to as low as 18s fid per week. One has a sick wife and three children to maintain. “I am very much concerned about the position and I am forwarding to the Minister of Labour a telegram as follows: “J Itham’s allocation is being systematically reduced each week and now some married men with families are receiving only the equivalent to 4| days a month. Many are on the point of starvation and the position is becoming impossible. I strongly urge that our allocation be r mtained to fulfil the legal requirements of men qualifying for work an certified by local government officers.” NATIONAL DAFFODIL SHOW. ENTRIES CLOSING TO-NIGHT. Entries close to-night for the National Daffodil Society’s show, which is to be held -t Eltham on Wednesday and Thursday. Judging by the blooms displayed at the Taranaki shows and in anticipation of exhibits from other parts of New Zealand tho display should be truly wonderful and one that may never be seen again in Taranaki. The official opening is to take place at 2 p.m. on Wednesday by Sir R. Heaton Rhodes, M.L.C., president of the National Daffodil Society, and the proceedings are to be broadcast by 2YA, Wellington. • 1 Among tho probable outside exhibitors are the Rev. W. W. Avery, Messrs. Bull and ri: od, Auckland; Blackman and Catto. To Kuiti; H. J. Poole, Lower Hutt; . Gibson, Marton; Broadway, Otaki; Glover, Rongotea; Howell, Paraparaumu; Burgess, Waikanae; Mrs. Weightman, ?almerston North. Tho Taranaki exhibitors will include Messrs. Loftus Rea, New Plymouth; Antunovic, Kettle, P. Palmer and others, Waitara; Mrs. Mourie, Opunake; R. Gibson, T. Johnson ma P. F. Hammonds, Manaia; C, Goodson and others, Hawera. Eltham groweu, who can hold their own with any competitors, will be exhibiting largely, the exhibitors being Messrs, A. Chrystal, R. Lewis and F, R. Pepperell. Some of the cups have arrived and are on display in Mr. T. Fountaine’s window, Eltham.