Relief Workers Complaints

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7026, 9 December 1932, Page 3

Relief Workers Complaints

BEFORE FEILDING COMMITTEE Further reference was made at yesterday’s meeting of the Feilding Unemployment Committee to the complaints dealt with at a previous meeting regarding men receiving payment for extra days worked on “over the fence’’ work. Certain correspondence appeared in tho Press and further inquiries had been made by the executive officers of the committee.

The secretary of tho committee (Mr. N. C. Harding) read the statements of soveral of the men who were alleged to have made complaints, ail denying that they had made complaints. At the meeting yesterday Mr. P. G. Guy handed in a “round robin’’ signed by 23 men supporting the statement of Mr. D. M. Byrne that he had received complaints regarding “over the fence’’ scheme. Air. Guy submitted that Mr. Byrne had- proved his case and the Mayor should withdraw the “hard’’ words used against Mr. Byrne at the last meeting. The speaker was hoi, concerned about the nature of tho complaints; all he wished to clear up was the inference that Mr. Byrne had made a falso statement.

The Mayor said that he was satisfied that the position was not as had boon represented by Mr. Byrne. The Rev. Mr. Copeland felt that aaci Mr. Byrne admitted that his statement that he had received complaints from “20 or 30 men’’ was exaggerated, nothing further would have been heard of the matter. Other members of the committee supported the Mayor and the discussion closed.