MEN ON RELIEF WORKS
QUESTION IN PARLIAMENT. (:By Telegraph. Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Whether progress payments could could not be made to men employed on contract at Orakei and other unemployment relief works was a question asked of the Minister of Public Works, Hon. P. S. Williams, in the House today by Mr F. N. Bar tram (Grey Lynn). He also asked whether it was not a fact that single men without dependents were being employed on such works while married men with families were still out of work. The Minister replied that in cases of hardship men could obtain payment before the end; of the first fortnight. Preference was given to married men on the books of the Labour Department, but a limited number of single returned soldiers had been employed on works in the Auckland district and 15 single men had been taken on the register because married men on the register would not accept the positions
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Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1788, 29 July 1926, Page 5
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