INCREASED RELIEF WAGES.
(TO the Editor.) Sir, —In Saturday’s Issue of The Waikato Times, Mr Coates’ statement of increased relief wages was published. Is this intended as a joke or are the public expected to believe it? If the former, it is in very 'bad taste, but if the latter, it can be taken as a hoax. Let me explain: Under the present scale of relief, a four-day man has three weeks at £2 10s and during 1 the off week he gets one day at the ! hospital at 12s, making a total Of j £'B 2s for four weeks, during which I time he works 13 days. Mr Coates' i increase consists of making him work 1 four weeks at £2, total £B, with 16 1 days work. This bluff (and it is noth- j ing less), shows the Minister up once 1 again, in his true light as a bluff j artist.—l am, etc., FOUR-DAY MAN. I
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Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18622, 28 April 1932, Page 9
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159INCREASED RELIEF WAGES. Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18622, 28 April 1932, Page 9
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