£2OOO VOTED FOR RELIEF WORK IS SUBSIDY.
ANSWER GIVEN TO AUCKLAND REQUEST. (Special to the “ Star.”) AUCKLAND. December 21. The Government has refused to alter its decision that the £2OOO promised as assistance in relieving the unemployed of Auckland over Christmas should be a subsidy on a similar contribution from the City Council. A telegram was receiv'ed from Sir Joseph Ward to that effect yesterday. “That is the end of it,” the Mayor said last evening. “The reply is practicallv identical \yith the message we receiv'ed in the first place, and the only thing the Premier’s promise of assistance in time for Christmas has done has been to raise a strong feeling of dissatisfaction among the unemployed. The men have been waiting outside the Town Hall for the last, three days for news, and that is all we can give them. The City Council cannot do a tiy more than it has done. In anticipation of receiving a grant such as was given to Christchurch we put another fifty men on the relief works on Monday.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18643, 21 December 1928, Page 1
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