“UNJUST; UN-CHRISTIAN”

Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1935, Page 7

“UNJUST; UN-CHRISTIAN”

CONDITIONS OF TO-DAY CONDEMNATION OF GOVERNMENT. ARCHBISHOP AVERILL’S SPEECH. NEW ECONOMIC SYSTEM WANTED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. A meeting organised by a group of clergy representing principally Anglican and Roman Catholic Faiths and described as “a united protest against unjust and un-Chrisitan social conditions was held in the town hall to-night. It was attended by about 2000 people. The Primate, Archbishop Averill, said the question of unemployment needed facing from a different pointjof view. A.t present they were only trying to patch what had gone too far to be patched and what he thought was too serious for any kind of patching. “It is a new system which is needed to meet the needs of the new age, he said. “I maintain that every man capable of work should work and has the right to live and to work and is entitled also to A fair and just proportion of fruits of his labours.” . Resolutions were carried drawing attention to “chronic poverty and distress affirming that the Goernment’s methods had been a temporisation instead of solution and urging an immediate constructive programme to deal with the situation. The meeting carried a further resolution expressing indignation at the treatment of returned soldiers regarding sustenance and pensions and calling on the Government to honour its pledges to the men who enlisted. A third resolution called for a no-con-fidence rejection of the Government at the coming election on the ground oi political ineptitude.