RELIEF WORKERS’ GARDENS

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXX, Issue 8498, 5 August 1933, Page 2

RELIEF WORKERS’ GARDENS

BOARD INSISTS ON VEGETABLE PLOTS COUNCIL’S GRANT FOR SEEDS The attention of the Waihi Borons Ii Council to the requirements of the Unemployment Board in connection with the growing of vegetables for domestic use by the unemployed was drawn on Wednesday evening >n a letter from the hon. secretary of thu Waihi Relief Workers' Association, Mr E. Ward, who said the board was forcing the men’s hands and threatening to put them off work if they did not comply. He therefore asked the council to give the association a larger grant than the £5 it donated last year so that seed might be procured. The town clerk, Mr E. C. Westbury, having explained that the circular in question had been handed to all relief workers by the local unemployment committee Cr. C. F. Butcher moved that the sum of £7 10s bo act aside for the purchase of seeds for the man. This was seconded by the Mavor, Mr W. M. Wallnutt. On suggestions from Crs. A. E. Robinson and J. Mitchell, the mover consented to add to his motion that all relief workers should participate in the distribution of seeds, the applicants to state their requiramen's to the committee, which" would issue orders to the amount authorised, the money not to be handed to the Relief Workers’ Association. The motion was then carried.