BLANKETS REFUSED.
No Further Issue for Men in Hanmer Camp. Relief workers in camp at Hanmer are not to be issued with additional blankets for use during the winter. Writing in response to a request made by the Mayor of Christchurch (Mr D. G. Sullivan, M.P.) on behalf of the men in camp at Hanmer, the deputychairman of the Unemployment Board (Mr W. Bromley) states that while the board is sympathetic it wishes to point out that the men in the Hanmer camp are eligible for one issue of blankets, and it is understood that they have received this issue. If a further issue was granted to these men a similar issue could not be withheld from men in camps in other districts, in some of which conditions are perhaps more severe during the winter months than those in Hanmer. Also gold prospectors and others would expect a second issue. In the circumstances and as the board is not prepared to authorise a further issue all round it is regretted that the request has to be declined.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20625, 28 May 1935, Page 9
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