FREE RATIONS WANTED FOR RELIEF WORKERS.
A few days ago. the Mayor (the Rev J. K. Archer) wrote to the Minister of Public Works relating to supplying food free of cost to the men employed on relief works on Lake Sumner Road. To-day, the Mayor received a reply from the Minister, the Hon K. S. Williams, stating inter alia: “ 1 am unable, as surmised by you. to see my way to recommend that the Government should provide relief workers in the Canterbury district with food supplies free of cost in addition to wages; and from inquiries which I have made, there does not appear to be any reason why the Government should purchase stores at wholesale rates and sell them to the workmen on the Lake Sumner Road.” The latter added that the work was sixteen miles from Hawarden where there was a store and a butcher’s shop And was twenty miles from Waikari. «here there was also a general store. lie storekeepers sent motors twice a as far as possible and then conVeycdth e food by sledge for the remainder of the day. No charge was mad for delivery. Keen competition between the storekeepers kept prices at a reasonable figure and it apeared, from bits supplied, as if the workmen were receiving supplies at rates that compared favourably with the best retail quotations in Wellington. /
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18187, 21 June 1927, Page 5
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