REV. W. CHAN, of Wellington, who is visiting Auckland to organise the workless Chinese here. A community garden scheme is proposed. Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 133, 7 June 1934, Page 10
UNEMPLOYED CHINESE POSITION IN -AUCKLAND
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This, Day. Attention was, drawn to-day by one of the leaders of the Chinese community in Auckland, :Mr. Andrew Chong, to the plight of unemployed Chinese. He said, that' throughout New Zealand .Chinese had paid thousands of pounds to the unemployment fund, yet, as far as he could ascertain, not one Chinese had been given relief work or relief nations. The situation became acute last April, when owing to the low returns, from.the market garden business many men had been thrown on their own resources. They were unable to obtain employment with Europeans, and they had been' informed-by the Labour Department .that they! were ineligible-for work or sustenance. ,Yet Chinese in work continued to pay both the levy and the tax. Ho estimated that there were about 150 Chinese in Auckland practically destitute. Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 7, 10 January 1933, Page 9
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NOT DEBARRED. STATEMENT BY DEPARTMENT CONDITION OF EXEMPTION. Chinese, as Chinese, are not ineligible fqo or, debarred from relief work, according to a statement made this afternoon by the local office of the Labour Department. It was explained by the Department that, as far as Auckland was concerned representatives of the Chinese had in June last approached the Unemployment Board, through the Auckland office, with an offer that the Chinese community here would maintain its own unemployed. The offer was accepted, and in return the board agreed to grant exemption from the payment of the quarterly levy to every Chinese on whose behalf a certificate indicating his unemployment was forwarded to the Labour Department by either Mr. Andrew Chong or Mr. T. W. Doo, the recognised interpreters. That practice had been followed since, with the result that no Chinese had registered as unemployed or applied for relief work. The Unemployment Board, the statement added, fully appreciated the assistance that had been received as a result of the arrangement made in Auckland at the instance of the Chinese representatives, and the intimation to-day was the first the local office had received that the Chinese community was finding the burden unbearable. If the Chinese now wished to resume payment of the levy, the men would be considered eligible for relief along with Europeans. Emphasis was laid on the statement that Chinese, as Chinese, were not ineligible for relief work. Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 7, 10 January 1933, Page 5
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