JUBILEE BONUS.
A COSTLY REQUEST MADE. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHUBCH, April 29. The Christehurch Unemployment Committee, at its meeting to-day, decided to ask the Unemployment Board to consider an increase in the bonus to be paid to relief workers in certain categories as part of the celebration of the King's Jubilee. The request finally agreed upon was that the Government be asked to provide a bonus of one month's pay instead of one week's pay. , Some members questioned whethei the Board had the money to meet the request, which would cost upwards ot £200,000. However, there was no vote against the proposal.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 168, 30 April 1935, Page 7
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