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Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17618, 9 May 1929, Page 8

A Taranaki man who was recently in the south got an insight into the unemployment problam whilst auaj. He ran across a friend of his who had been conducting a country store and had recently sold out profitably. “What are you doing now, Frank?” he asked. “Frank” replied that he was on the Government relief work a few miles away. “Goodness me! You on relief works, man! You with thousands of pounds to your credit !” “Frank” explained that he was far too vigorous to retire and rest on his oars; he could not get work in the vicinity so took on the Gvernment jb at 14/- a day, besides which he was able to earn a few more shillings a day by taking three others on the relief works to and from their job!

Mr. T. D. Burnett, M.P. for Temuka on Wednesday despatched the following telegram to the Prime Minister: “As representative of a family that has been Crown tenants for 65 years in the Mackenzie 1 am greatly disappointed in your action in permitting Byrd's wolf dogs to go up to the Hermitage. The head of a Government that has 36,000 tenants ought to have shown more consideration for those tenants’ interest as compared to those of outside Americans. There are many thousands of sheep belonging to Crown tenants wintered in precipitous country in the Mackenzie Country, that if wolf dogs got loose among them it would be impossible for anyone to assess the resultant damage.”