AN IMPOSITION EXPOSED.
MEN EARNING GOOD WAGES GET CHARITABLE AID.
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, August 11. Mr A. E. White, the secretary, writing from the Trades Hall to the Benevolent Trustees, complained that three plasterers who had been working for good wages were > applying to the institution for relief. Mr White stated that in the cases under review there should have been no occasion to apply for charitable assistance. One of the men had been pretty constantly at work for the pastHwo years, and that while receiving rations. The writer said: “I think men earning £3 15s when they get full time should not get relief.” Another plasterer, Mr White stated, had been earning an average of £2 15s for the past two years up to about a month ago, and should not have applied for help to the institution. The secretary to the trustees, at ,tlie meeting yesterday, was instructed to inform the correspondent _ that the trustees thanked him for his communication in the public interest, the Rev. W. A. Evans suggesting that the institution would do well to keep iu touch with union secretaries with regard to the relief of union members.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2578, 12 August 1909, Page 5
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194AN IMPOSITION EXPOSED. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2578, 12 August 1909, Page 5
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